just in from the beach. it is cold and blustery out there, a strong wind from the ENE. unless Chris spots a turtle within the next hour or so, we had only one tonight. Polaris returned and nested on south Juno Beach (Lost Tree). she first nested on our beach on May 8 but had not been seen since then. wonder where she has been - she's probably laid only one additional nest since we tagged her.
last night we had one new turtle which Jeremy and I spotted at 145 am, and Chris and Niki tagged her (Lacerta is her name). then later on, they spotted Electra nesting - 10 days since we tagged her. she is a huge turtle, and a quick nester.
we are now up to 33 tagged turtles, in the last week alone we have had 11 new turtles. Niki and Chris named some of the turtles they have tagged in the past few days. the morning nester will be Corona, the one Chris tagged on the 25th will be Alaska (named by Eleanor Fletcher's daughter), and Niki tagged another one the night of the 25th, it will be Metallah (which means head of the triangle - apparently she was pointy). think we are caught up to date with names, I never thought we would have to come up with so many, when this is a quieter year than last year. all the turtle summaries will be posted on the 2002 turtles link at the right, when we get a chance to update that page.
we are starting to see some of our turtles show up again that we tagged early on. hope we get some more. if recent nesters return this week we might see Sandy, Caroli, Hydra, Spica, Pisces, Lynx, Bootes, and Caeli. plus there are always some surprises.
until tomorrow at this time....
