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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

Sunday, May 9, 2010

May 9 Stranding on Waties


This morning - and a beautiful morning it was - brought us the first stranding of the season on Waties: a small Kemps ridley sea turtle.


There have been a number of these small turtles which have washed up on Grand Strand beaches recently. One on Briarcliff on May 3, one on NMB on May 5 and another one on NMB on May 7. Two new volunteers, Will and Jenny Lynn, were on hand to help this morning - thank you! Also, a big thank you to Valerie for these great photos.


Barb and Steve













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