Our surveyors and volunteers have been patiently waiting for the sea turtles to arrive on our sandy beaches here in PCB. This morning one of our surveyors found a loggerhead crawl, a false crawl. The turtle emerged from the water but after checking out the area she returned to the water. We hope she will return somewhere along our beach tonight and this time successfully nest. Our volunteers and surveyors are all ready to get our first 2025 nest under our belt.
If you encounter a sea turtle on the sandy beach, stay behind her from a distance, don’t use any light (it dazes and disorients them) and contact us via PCB police non-emergency or our Turtle Watch hotline number. We’ll have our volunteers respond asap to help protect her and her nest.
PS that sargassum that is currently floating nearby and washing ashore, it is the habitat hatchling sea turtles are looking for once they hatch and enter the Gulf. In the Gulf, it provides food and protection for the hatchlings.
