Nest 15 for IOP & Nest 4 for SI

Nest #15: Our turtles are very busy this time of year. This morning Harold and Sandy Hirschmann were on patrol at the north end of the Isle of Palms. But Julie Vaccaro and her daughters Hannah and Sarah from Avon Lake, Ohio were visiting our island and spotted a body pit with very short tracks just northeast of Ocean Club Villas near Dewees Inlet. This contained 74 eggs that were taken to near the 30th Avenue Access Path for relocation. Sand pumping is to start on the beach at Beach Club Villas very soon and continue down to somewhere near 53rd Avenue.

Nest #4: Jenn Gragg and Diane Brumley, along with Diane's husband Bill and dog Charlie had two sets of tracks that were mostly washed away by the tide just like the one on Isle of Palms. Both were at the southwest end of Sullivan's where our patrol area ends in Charleston Harbor not far from Fort Moultrie. One was False Crawl #5 for Sullivan's and the other was Nest #4. This is the largest clutch of eggs we have had this season numbering 149! These were relocated near the Station 19 Street Access Path.

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