Turtle Patrol

Last Thursday, Contessa and I set out for an experience of a lifetime. Helping the volunteers of the Coastal Discovery Museum on Turtle Patrol. We met Jamie and Pat at 5 in the morning. It was still dark as we boarded the gators. We headed north to begin checking on the Loggerhead Turtle Nests.



Once checking on the nests and helping 2 babies find their way to the ocean we headed south along the shoreline.

We came upon crawl tracks from a momma loggerhead turtle.


We found an old nest, probably the first one of the season. there was no survivors of this nest. Only 2 feet away we found the nest laid by the momma who made those massive tracks. we discovered 105 eggs in this nest and moved it safely to the dunes. Nest number 155.

we boarded the gators as the sun was beginning to rise.



In the next nest we helped 24 turtle find their way to the water. Look as this baby swims between my feet.



What a beautiful morning!! I hope we get to do this again sometime soon.

And here are the layouts.



Pattern Paper by fancy pants.





Pattern Paper by Bo Bunny.