http://floridaleatherbacks.com/taxonomy/term/13/0 en http://floridaleatherbacks.com/node/2757 <p>Wow, I think this may be a big leatherback season here in Florida! Last night the crew working for Ecological Associates saw one of our turtles nesting on Jupiter Island and on their morning survey found five nests! Tonight, Brenda who is working on the same project, found two nesting turtles and both of them were untagged new turtles.<br /> I have been pretty lucky myself! THREE turtles so far tonight! One of them was untagged, and two others were tagged in prior years.<br /> <a href="http://floridaleatherbacks.com/en/search/node/lyra">Lyra</a> was first tagged in 2001 and was spotted in 2003 and 2005. She seems to like the area near the Juno Beach fishing pier and has been found there almost all of the times we found her. She has grown quite a bit since 2001 and she is now 163 centimeters long which is about 15 centimeters bigger than when first encountered.</p> <p><a href="http://floridaleatherbacks.com/node/2757">read more</a></p> http://floridaleatherbacks.com/node/2757#comment New turtle Sun, 25 Mar 2007 03:57:30 -0400 leatherbacks 2757 at http://floridaleatherbacks.com