Nest #7 for IOP and Multiple False Crawls on the Beach

Our loggerheads were very active during the night, but most of them were just taking a stroll on the beach without laying eggs. At the south end of Isle of Palms and the north end of Sullivan's Island, there were three sets of tracks all the exact same size, probably the same turtle. She was on IOP early and then after the tide went out she crawled twice on Sullivan's. There were also tracks and no nest at the 36A path and between Ocean Club and Ocean Point in Wild Dunes.

But finally there were eggs up at the north end of IOP in Wild Dunes at Ocean Club Villas where there is hardly any sand left from erosion with sand pumping set to begin in about a month. This would have destroyed this nest.. Cindy Bergstrom, Paige Owens, Patty Horton, and Tristi Lowther discovered these tracks at Nest 7 containing 111 eggs that were carefully relocated to a dune between 28th and 29th Avenues in the middle of the island where they will not be disturbed.