Unfortunately that's not good for us! Our survey area runs from inlet to inlet and is broken down into four beaches - from north to south they are Jupiter, Juno Beach, MacArthur Park and Singer Island. As I previously mentioned, there is a large sea wall at the north end of Singer Island that sticks out quite far into the water. We are only able to pass the sea wall at extremely low tides now which really limits when we can survey Singer Island. Tonight, high tide wasn't until 2:40 so Christy wasn't able to survey until after 3:00. When she got down there, a turtle had already come and gone. This has happened to us two times already this season. Singer Island his typically not been one of our hot spots for turtle sightings but maybe this year is the year. However, on a good note, we did see another turtle tonight! Christy spotted Tallulah covering her nest in MacArthur Park. Chris and I went down to see her at about 3:00. As we watched her cover her nest, she began to dig again. Christy hadn't seen her actually drop eggs but she was covering with her rear flippers as they only do after nesting. We thought it was a bit odd but we occasionally see turtles start to dig additional egg chambers after nesting. She "dug" for a while without really getting anywhere and then left. When we got back to the office and looked up her history, we noted that she was also observed doing this same behavior in 2006. We're not really sure what makes them so this. She was seen twice in 2006 and once in 2008. Chris and I are fading quickly tonight. We had a meeting at 3:30 this afternoon (which is like 3:30am for those on a normal schedule) so we were only able to sleep about 4 hours this morning. We get a bit crazy in the early hours of the morning when we haven't slept much!
