Good news from the Folly Beach sea turtle watch team.
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| Loggerhead turtle leaving her nest on Folly Beach. Photo by the iFarmer |
The loggerhead sea turtle Sim and my niece saw while we were on vacation in South Carolina on June 23 is now a proud momma of some 116 babies.
She’d laid 134 eggs in a nest that South Carolina Aquarium staff and volunteers moved to a safer spot in the dune. The digging up and re-burying the eggs is what I got to witness.
From what is being reported at FollyTurtles.com, an 87 percent hatch rate is pretty good, especially for a nest that size.
I hope the little sugars made it safely to the water. The Folly Beach team reported the hatchlings on Aug. 13.
Virtual Farmgirl 