A little bit nicer

Last night the wind calmed down a bit and it was only blowing at about 20mph. Still cold and windy, but a whole lot better than the last few days.
I also got to see a turtle - twice!
At about 11pm, I was staring at my phone to check the time and looked up and saw a turtle a few hundred meters behind me heading back into the water. Thats was wierd! How could I pass a giant black thing on a night as bright as it was with the full moon?! I watched her slip back into the water and went to investigate. She crawled out and turned around and went right back in to water. Guess she didn't like the location.

An hour later, I spotted her again as she was crawling up the beach a few hundred meters to the south. This time she was staying. She dug an egg chamber and started to lay eggs. No rear flipper tags, but she had marks indicating she had been tagged before. (tags will often leave a small hole or bump in the skin if they are lost - these are called tag scars) As I went to check her for a PIT tag, I noticed a tag in her front flipper. Funny I thought, we don't tag them in the front flippers. But, I know who does! Turns out she was tagged by Dean Bagley and the crew of the University of Central Florida on Melbourne Beach on May 17, 2001. We saw her nesting here on Juno during the 2003 season also. These turtles like to wander!