Not much to report

Not much to report from last night. It was warm, windy and salty once again. The wind has picked up from the south in advance of a cool front and the resulting waves have scarped the beach quite a bit during the course of the night making riding along the beach dificult. I did not see a single turtle on my area, but kelly must have seen a few! On my morning ride to count crawls and mark them with stakes and GPS, I found 13 crawls - all down on the south end.

On the tracking front, Beatrice is no longer transmitting. We have not heard from her for over a month now and have come to the conclusion that her harness likely fell off her. The harness that we use was designed by Scott Eckert (WIDECAST/Duke University) to release itself from the turtle after a period of time. Given that her last reported location was in a generally safe location for leatherbacks and that the batteries on her transmitter were in good condition we have concluded that the harness released prematurely. We are looking forward to seeing Beatrice next season when she nests here on Juno beach! A complete map of her movements is below. Clicking the map will take you to our main tracking pages.