Thursday, August 23rd
Five volunteers left today…one of which was Andrea who had
been here for 5 weeks and was an awesome friend and volunteer. I was really sad
to see her go! I was also sad to see the other volunteers go as well because
they had been a great group to work with. One good thing was that Glenda and
Fay came back!
I spent the day making sure that the volunteers leaving packed all their stuff up, filled out the necessary forms, and made their shuttle bus. Also, during lunch, there was another dead turtle that washed up, so I found it and filled out the stranding report. The vultures had almost completely demolished it by the time I got there, so it was basically impossible to even guess what the cause of death was. That makes this the 11th turtle stranding so far this season (about 2 months).
Later, I showed Fay how excavations work and was able to
save a couple more hatchlings that were stuck on the bottom of a nest. Now
that it is hatchling season, we basically have to check the hatcheries every
couple hours…during the day and at night. One of the volunteers had the 3:00am hatchery check and sure enough a nest hatched! We were able to release them without a hitch. Luckily, when it is that late at night, there is no one on the the beach so we only have to worry about the hatchlings.
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