Last night was warm, salty and leatherbacky. We found two turtles last night on the north end of the survey area. I came across Magdalena at around midnight and then found Bunny at the popular leatherback nesting time of 4AM. Kelly and Robbin Trindell (Florida FWC)rode the south end of the beach and watched quite a few loggerheads nesting but did not find any leatherbacks. Kelly and Robbin took a trip up north to see Magdalena finish her nest and crawl to the water.
We are back out there tonight and will be deploying PAT transmitters with folks from NOAA Fisheries Service on two nesting leatherbacks. We will post more information about the PAT transmitters in the next few days.
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I seem to recall you defining the word "leatherbacky" a while back. Could you provide a link to thet definition? :)
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