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It slowed down after our 15 turtle night. Thursday night we had four turtles on our beaches. The night started off with Alice at around 9:00. Alice had false crawled the night before so we anticipated that she might show up early. Alice has a long history with our project. As I mentioned before, she was the first turtle spotted by our researchers when the project began in 2001. Alice has returned many times but never nested. She goes through the same routine as all of our other turtles but has never actually produced any eggs. She has done this every time that we’ve seen her and we are unable to determine what is wrong with her that would cause this behavior. Later in the evening, Andrew spotted Roomba near Seminole golf course. Just after that he found a new turtle in MacArthur Park. We rounded out the evening with Morsel around 2:00am. This was her first visit of the year. She was tagged in 2008 and observed four times that season. Last night was a bit slower. We only had one turtle. I spotted Belinda just after midnight at the southern boundary of MacArthur Park. Belinda was first spotted ten days ago by Chris near the Jupiter Inlet.