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Waties Island Sea Turtle Monitors

Waties Island is a 2.7 mile private undeveloped barrier island at the border of North and South Carolina. Under a permit from SC Department of Natural Resources to help protect the sea turtle, we are at it again this season! The site will be updated often, so please feel free to bookmark us and visit us again to see what's new!

Waties Island Nest Counter

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Busy Day on the Grand Strand



Yesterday, there were a couple of strandings (sea turtles washed up on the beach) - a juvenile leatherback came ashore at the Ocean Lakes Campground in Myrtle Beach and a small loggerhead washed ashore around 6200 Ocean Boulevard in Cherry Grove. The SCUTE Facebook page has photos of the leatherback and the NMB Sea Turtle Patrol blog has photos of the loggerhead -

http://www.facebook.com/pages/SCUTE/36320641283

http://nmbturtle.blogspot.com/

Here Animal Control Officer Charlotte Porter is getting the loggerhead turtle ready to transport to the SC DNR officials who were on the scene of the leatherback stranding.

Barb and Steve
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