tonight was pretty quiet on the beach. at first it was still and hot, but the wind picked up later on and it became a little chilly. no turtles except loggerheads until 1 am when I spotted a leatherback from one of the crossovers with the night vision scope. she was already laying eggs when I arrived so I tagged her quickly and recorded her information. she was a small turtle (147 cm curved carapace length) but she had lots of diffuse pretty white spots all over her head. something had happened to her rear left flipper though, it looked like it had been chopped off (but was all healed). I named her Spica, which is one of the stars that makes up the constellation Virgo.
Niki and Jeremy were on the south part of the beach on the gator, but had a quiet evening. Our tagged turtles should be starting to come back for additional nests. We will keep you updated.....
one additional note. We have now tagged 18 individual turtles, which is nearing our record of 22 last season. Looks like it is going to be a better year than we predicted!
