Exciting morning (8/5) in section C. I found H-10!!! Marked the area with abandoned beach toys and finished patrol in soaking rain as did all our team this morning!!! Thanks to Karen for being taxi for us this morning and checking on H-2 during the weather delay! After a couple of threatening weather interruptions, we finally…
Hi Team! It has been quite a busy couple of weeks!! We have had 4 nests hatch, 4 excavations, monitoring nests, and a new nest this past Monday! As you all know, J-1 hatched during a rain storm on July 24. Excavation revealed a very low number of eggs. We know this nest had…
Meet our future Share The Beach leaders!! (Watch out Mike Reynolds) Last night (7/12) after tarping H-1, these Jr. Volunteers, Miles and Liam ( Pam Walter’s grandsons) presented us with their collected donation of $63.00 for Share The Beach. They are great volunteers, eager to patrol every Mon & Fri. They were also a big help…
PICK-UP THE PASS AT THE POINT (A GOODPEOPLE CLEAN THE BEACH EVENT) JUNE 20- SATURDAY Location: Alabama Point Time: 8:40am – 4:20pm Benefiting: Share the Beach www.alabamaseaturtles.com/ Carrying on the momentum from ‘The Floppers Ball’– 1,900+ lbs of canned food & $800+ in monetary donations was collected for the Bay Area Food Bank. (The…
Well, folks we have another one. USGS found Sophia on the beach last night (6/3/2015). She had graced us with a nest here in 2013. She left us 141 eggs before she got a new tag. She has been In Mexico while she was away. Newbie luck again. Peggy had only ridden twice and had…
Ft Morgan got nest number 5 today (May 28th). It was a heck of a day. Patrol this morning included Judy, Debbie H, Kelly and Diane P. It was Diane’s first nest. I think we have had a new volunteer on every nest. We are going to run out of newbies soon. Momma turtle left perfect…
OMG!! What an awesome start to a special day!!! Sheree and Boyd (subs for Tommie) found H-1 this morning in section B. As you can see from the pics, thank goodness the loungers did not stop her from nesting. She had a tough time leaving the nest and her tracks and nest had already been walked…
Tomorrow, May 1st 2015 marks the official start of the Sea Turtle Nesting Season on the Alabama coast. Dozens of dedicated volunteers will take to the beach before sunrise searching the sands of Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, Ft Morgan and Dauphin Island for signs of mother sea turtles that may have come ashore to lay…
