Not so fooled...

We're keeping busy out there! Tuesday night brought us just one turtle. Riley joined us shortly after 3:00am. Riley was first observed by Chris and Sara B. in May, 2006. She was seen one additional time that year and then again in 2008. Tonight, we had two turtles nest on Juno Beach. Cocoline, a turtle first seen by our crew ten days ago, nested just south of the Loggerhead Marinelife Center at around 11:30. We just returned to the office from yet another turtle. This time it was Eve, a turtle also seen in 2006 and 2008 by our crew. Interestingly, Eve has some distinct injuries that Chris and I recognized immediately. If you've read the previous blog posts, you've heard about my "curse" with morning turtles. Back on the morning of the 18th, after having what I thought was a fantastic "first turtle" night, I discovered that we had missed a morning turtle on the south end of Juno Beach. The next day we were approached by one of the regular beach visitors. She had seen this turtle nesting in the daylight and had taken several photos. She gave us a cd of the images and while we could not see any tags on the turtle, she had some pretty obvious injuries. We told everyone to keep an eye out for her. As soon as Chris and I saw Eve last night, we knew she had been our missed morning turtle. We were all pretty excited to know that Eve had not completely eluded us after all!