Tuesday 15 November 2011

The season in numbers...

442 records, 237 nests, 178 false crawls, 27 nights with no activity 
63 turtles, 14 neophytes
155 eggs per nest, 81% hatch success
29 000 hatchlings produced - some still to come!
One of the crew! ©D.Tilley

Tuesday 8 November 2011

10 days to go!

It has taken 43 nights to go from 200 nests to a mighty ... 230.
In this time we have had and extra 7 turtles come to shore. With 10 days to go, we are stuck on 230 nests and 63 turtles.  This is the lowest tally in the last 5 years.

We are expecting 5 turtles over the next 10 days, so we may reach a mighty 235 nests by the end of the season!

How ironic is it that on the patrol that followed my typing this, we had a turtle come up... and nest!
Shark bait is the name, and we have 231 nests!

Shark bait: a bite taken out of the front right flipper. ©D.Tilley