By Delayna Earley
The Island News
The Friends of Hunting Island Sea Turtle Conservation Project found their first two nests of the season on Monday, May, 13.
In addition to the two successful nests, there have been two false crawls, which is when a turtle starts to crawl onto the beach, but something spooks it and causes it to return to the water without laying eggs.
Both nests were made by loggerhead turtles.
According to the data posted on seaturtle.org, of the two nests, one was relocated to a safer place and there are an estimated 127 eggs.
These were not the first nests of the season for northern Beaufort County.
Four nests have been located on Fripp Island, who had the first nest in Beaufort County.
One nest has been found on Harbor Island as well.
Delayna Earley, who joined The Island News in 2022, formerly worked as a photojournalist for The Island Packet/The Beaufort Gazette, as well as newspapers in Indiana and Virginia. She can be reached at delayna.theislandnews@gmail.com.
