G1 - Found June 13
There was very little crawl visible because of tire tracks.

What was left of crawl was just inside wrack line where the oil is and the ATV's usually don't ride thru the oil. Miracously, Kelly and Mike studied an area where you could see sand had been thrown in the midst of tire tracks which went over nest more than once. Anyway, we found 128 eggs and nest was moved. Momma T came on the beach further down and wandered around went back to water before coming ashore again to nest.

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G2 - Found August 4
It was an exciting evening for night ops workers.

Night operations, Hepaco 2 team was working GSP. Cindy and Steve were assigned the loader and had just escorted Juan to the Hepaco yard. Upon returning to the beach and running east Cindy spotted Moma Turtle coming ashore abt 40 ft. from water.(Yeah Cindy!!!!) They immediately stopped the loader and backed off. The rest of us were abt 500 yds. east with the equipment being abt 600 yds. The crew shut down. Chyerel, Paul (Supervisor) and I walked back to the crawl and met up with Cindy, Steve and Juan. She had crawled to the sea oats and we could not tell if she was nesting or not. The rest of our crew walked down the beach and we gathered at a safe distance. After abt 1:20 min she went back to the water and everyone got a good look at Moma T. Her crawl was 36" and she was beautiful.

I caught up with Kelly to help find the eggs and finish marking the nest. There were alot of sea oat roots in the nest area. For this reason, some of the eggs probably will not make it; however, we cannot move a nest for that reason so it was left where found.

I wish I would have taken more pics when marking.I don't see how she dug the nest in that cramped area. I think she was the same turtle from 2 nights ago(false crawl) and she was hiding in the sea oats so as not to be disturbed.

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It was a fun night - made the work worthwhile!!

Thanks everyone,