It has already been a very busy season here along our survey area. Since we started surveying back on March 6th, we have found more than 44 individual turtles using our beach! This is a LOT for so early in the season. We are all expecting a record season on our beach and along the entire state of Florida. There is about a 50/50 mix of turtles that are untagged and older recaptures. Turtles that were tagged in all prior seasons are nesting this year, and we have seen two turtles from our first season of tagging back in 2001. It is nice to see those girls and wonder what they have been doing and where they have been travelling for all of those years.
Last night, we encountered two new turtles and two turtles that were previously tagged. One of them was a turtle that I named early in the season after Eleanor Fletcher, the woman who started the Marinelife Center.
