Monday, June 25, 2012

Well, the 200th nest was found June 17. This is the Texas state record for nesting Kemp's Ridleys. Sea Turtle Inc. represented by finding the golden nest. This particular clutch was considered an "unknown". On high wind days it becomes extremely difficult to follow the wind blown tracks. If the nest cavity is not found, the GPS coordinates are recorded and it is then logged as a "U" nest. We mark the site with a wooden post and a giant "u"...makes sense right? Well unfortunately beach campers, i'll refer to them as adam henrys, get desperate for wood and decide that our sign is an excellent fuel source. The nest then becomes almost impossible to identify and when the turtle hatch out, we lose valuable information.

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