Tuesday, October 2nd
Luckily, I marked down where the
nine tracks that we found last night were because most of them were washed away
by the tide and the rain. The rest of the morning was pretty normal…I counted
the tracks, returned to the park, and released one lone hatchling.
While volunteers did yard work
around the parque, I spent the rest of the morning entering the hatchery data
for this month so that we could see our egg total. We collected around 14,000
eggs this month, which is good considering we had mostly just two volunteers
the whole time.
During free time, I went up to
the tower to read. While I was reading/napping, some volunteers that had been
playing in the ocean saw a turtle come up and claimed the nest! It was a small
nest of only 37 eggs, but it was still a turtle whose nest was fully ours and
not one that we had to buy. It was a great way to get woken up from a nap. After
burying the eggs, I did a bunch of nest excavations and showed some of the new
volunteers how to do them as well.
At night, it rained for the
first time in what seemed like FOREVER! Of course it was right when I went on
patrol, but it was OK because a bunch of turtles came out and we were able to
buy three nests!
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