It's close to hatching time! The photo above shows some "hatchlings" from several years ago, but the hatching season is upon us again - almost! In fact, several of the recorded nests along our stretch of beach are due to hatch, although there is no evidence of any nests so far that have actually hatched. Unfortunately, we have had several nests that have been "flooded out" or "washed out" by storm wave action, such as during the impact of the tropical storm called "Debbie" that flooded out much of the Florida panhandle area. Fortunately, we had semi-strong winds and not as many damaging waves that could have destroyed more of the turtle nests on our beaches on the east coast of Florida.
During my beach walk this morning, I checked on about 7 of the recorded turtle nests that we estimated would hatch in early July. None of the seven nests showed any activity, but I will keep a closer eye on them in the weeks to come, since it's about time!
In case any of you viewers would like to contribute your name and/or some money to what I believe is an important "project", you may want to check out the Sea Turtle Restoration Project at to see what that organization is attempting to do to save endangered sea turtles from being killed in the Gulf of Mexico. It appears to be a very worthy project and will have implications for sea turtle nesting on our coast, as well.
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