It was a busy one last night. Not really sure where to begin. I had a bad ride up here from my house(about an hour south) another tire blowout! Second one in a few weeks. I started out on the beach pretty late and thought I was going to miss a turtle - I did. But we did manage to see six others! First was Polaris who did not nest but only wandered around the beach for a few minutes, then came a tagged turtle up on Jupiter Beach, then another at the Jupiter Inlet, Kelly had one down on Singer Island, another near the Inlet, and finally a turtle near the Juno Beach fishing pier. I was really rushing around to find all of them and realized that one of the turtles was Musca! Musca is a turtle that we had placed a harness and transmitter on back on April 6th. We had not heard from her since May 8th, and I guess we know know why... Her harness was completely gone! Not really sure what happened to her harness but our last position for her was southeast of Cape Canaveral.
The last turtle was a new girl and I spotted her dropping eggs at round 3am. I added a few tags, measured her and went down the beach looking for more. The next time I went by her nest, she was still there. She had dug another hole and was trying to drop a few more eggs. I guess she must have done this 4 times, as she was still on the beach at 7am! I took a few pictures of her and will post some later today. Not really sure what her problem was, but she seemed rather odd!
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