Last night we all were looking for "Stewart" Stewart the turtle was located near the Jupiter Inlet at 7:30pm last night, so Sandy and I went looking for her with the VHF receiver while Niki and Kelly (working on her night off!) ran the beach on the bikes looking for other turtles.
At around midnight Sandy and I heard a good signal from Stewart and it sounded like she was on the beach. We immediately called Kelly and she drove up north to try to find her. No luck, but she did find a track from a turtle that did not nest! We all thought it was the missing turtle and were very excited to see a turtle exit the water! She did not have a transmitter though, but she did have a flipper tag. It was Lyra (click that link and notice the date she was first tagged) Kelly worked her up and Sandy and I continued the search, but we were unable to locate Stewart. Niki had been tagging a new turtle down south during all of this. We all met up at the office at 3:30am to wait for satellite data to arrive from our turtles. Data arrived and showed Stewart south near MacArthur Park and I was able to locate her with the VHF this morning still heading south.
The search continues tonight! Stewart will probably nest somewhere near the Lake Worth Inlet, and we will be waiting.
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