June 29: From Joe Spafford (GSP Team Lead) Hey Team, It was another happy day in the Gulf State Park. New team member Carolyn Schupp and veteran Debi Jones were subbing when they came upon a very long crawl. This momma was determined to nest and found the perfect place was a head start hole…
June 27: From Lisa G (OB Team Lead) This is insane! We set a record in OB today with our 14th nest and not even half way thru season!! Jude called at 5:53 am with H-14. It was one of the most beautiful crawls and nest I have ever seen. You can tell all from…
June 26: From Joe & Denise Spafford (GSP Team Leads) Hey Team, Today was a great day for the Gulf State Park turtle team! Veteran turtler, working on 7 years experience, Cade Wittman found his first nest. He managed to bring along his mom, dad and grandmother (Brandi, Frank and Sandy Vines) as well as…
June 26: From Lisa G (OB Team Leader) Another active night in OB turtleland!!. Call came in at 4:00 am from LOF (Leave Only Footprints) crew/Jude the spotter, turtle on the beach at Cotton Bayou. They left the stakes and continued their work. I got the the nest to see Momma T. covering her nest…
June 25: From Lisa Graham (OB Team Lead) Date: Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 6:48 PM Let me get straight to business – OB had 3 nests today!! A really exciting morning!! I will try to tell our story in as few words as possible! Ha! It all started at 12:58 am when Mike called with…
June 23: From Jan Taylor (LK Team Lead) Congratulations to newbie Paula Grievo on finding B17 this morning. It’s wonderful [that the] last two nests have been found by new team members. You are most lucky. There’s one member who walked several years and never found a nest. He’s retired to nest sitting only. This…
June 23: From Joe Spafford (GSP TeamLead) Congratulations Shelli Chambley for finding nest G-5. We got the pictures just after 6 am this morning and headed down to section B to meet Shelli. Team Leader Denise Spafford started taking down the nest information and I got the one call out to the team. Caren Dixon,…
June 23: From Peggy Lively (AP Team Lead) Happy, happy, day! What a night! Mike called a little after eleven p.m.. Tourist called in turtle on beach at Phoenix X! I called Rosie to alert team that wanted to be called, jumped in my jeep and headed to the beach. I walked all over…
June 21: From Lisa G (OB Team Leader) Turtles are everywhere!!! Michele found H-7 this morning in section B. This was actually Michele’s first solo nest! She laid just at the foot of the loungers. After nesting Momma crawled back over the nest area which always makes for a challenge. We looked for quite some time and…
June 17: from Jan (Laguna Key Team Leader) Hello Team, Got a text a 4:00 am “nest at […clip…]“. Rolled over and went back to sleep. Checked in with patrol, Richard was just walking up to the area. His comment, “This is a big pit, it’s going to be a BIG dig.” All Call sent.…
