RECALCULATING! It's time to revise the game plan this year, since we have just discovered that EAI, Inc. is only marking 1 out of 24 sea turtle nests that they find on our stretch of beach this season! What? Yes - a reliable source has indicated to us that EAI is apparently doing their own research relative to sea turtle nesting on "native sands" vs. "replenished sands" on several beaches. Since the beach area that we "patrol" has had several "sand replenishments" over the last 10 years, we are apparently part of the project. I'm still not sure of their research methodology", but I plan to give EAI a call, sometime in the near future, to help clarify what is happening relative to their research.

In the meantime, it's back to square one for us, since we will need to attempt to find all of the "nesting tracks" that have occurred on our stretch of beach over the past several months. Unfortunately, it is almost an impossible task, since many of the tracks and possible nests have been obscured by weather, EAI's own buggy tracks where they attempt to cover up the sea turtle tracks, and the factor of time that has lapsed since the tracks and nests were made. It is discouraging to find out about their "research plan" at this late date, but we have nobody to blame but ourselves, since we had serious concerns about why we were not finding more EAI-marked nests way back in April. We'll just have to do our best on our own to make up for lost time! Our apologies to our "many" blog followers. We'll try to make it up to the three of you - as soon as possible!