What a fun night! We started the evening off with a dinner gathering at our good friend Andy's house. Kelly along with her parents, Niki Desjardin, Jeanette Wyneken, Mike Salmon, Denise and Marie joined for a nice Italian dinner to kick off the summer. After dinner, I headed out on the beach alone to survey for turtles. At around 12:30am I spotted a new turtle in Carlin Park. I tagged, measured and took a genetic biopsy sample from her and headed north a few hundred meters and found another turtle. It was "Georgia"! Georgia was first observed nesting during the 2002 season nesting on Jupiter beach - no more than 2 kilometers from where she was found tonight! "Georgia" is our biggest turtle (giant) at 168.0cm.
I met up with Kelly, Niki and Kelly's parents at the first turtle and we named her Rhoda after Kelly's mom.