A whole mess of turtles! Last night was a busy one. Niki saw 3 turtles on Hutchinson and we had one new turtle down here on Juno Beach. We tagged a new leatherback at around 12:00am just outside of the office here in Juno Beach. Niki was visited by Snowflake and Ana and another that I cannot remember (maybe I need some sleep)
I ran the beach with Sandy all night trying to find Molly. Molly was fitted 11 days ago with a satellite transmitter. Her transmitter is not functioning as designed and we hope to find it and reprogram it. I saw a leatherback in the surf at abround 1am last night and she apeared to have a trasnmitter on her back. She did not come back to the beach again though. Maybe tonight...
UPDATE:
Molly is swimming right off the beach in front of my office!!! I can hear her Argos messages being sent to the satellites on our police scanner tuned to the Argos frequency. When I first heard the signal about an hour ago, I freaked out and jumped back on the bike and went looking for her - no luck. She seems to be spending a lot of time near the surface fairly close to the beach. I can tell this by the amount of time between transmissions, the strength of the signal and because the transmitter only sends its data when out of the water. I wish I had a boat. Anybody want to donate a boat to the project??
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