Video below: Thanks to Gio Serrano for sharing this on Facebook, where I saw it. Nice video.
Archive | Turtle
Late Season Turtle Nest on Melbourne Beach Florida
Suzy and I took a trip over to Cocoa Beach this past weekend to give my presentation on beach safety at the Cocoa Beach Library. Friday evening we drove down to Melbourne Beach to get away from the crowd. We took a walk at the Ponce de Leon beach access and found a few turtle […]
Sea Turtle Setback. But Wait, the Season’s Not Over Yet!
So far this season sea turtles have been nesting on Florida’s southwest coast beaches in record numbers. Expectations were high for a very successful nesting season. The great news was being reported on Sanibel, Naples beaches, Anna Maria Island beaches, and just about every beach in southwest Florida. Unfortunately there is a fly in […]
Night Vision Cameras Record Nesting Sea Turtle Behavior on Florida Beaches
In Summer 2011, a time-lapse photographic study of sea turtle nesting was done on Florida’s Brevard County beaches (Melbourne Beach area) to analyze the behavior of the sea turtles. There was some concern that the educational guided turtle walks conducted by various sea turtle monitoring organizations could be contributing to the number of false […]
Go For an Educational Sea Turtle Walk this Summer
If you’re looking for something different this summer, how about watching a sea turtle laying eggs at night on a Florida beach? You’ll have the best chance of seeing a turtle on Florida’s Atlantic coast beaches on a guided turtle walk. Sea turtles do nest along Florida’s Gulf coast, but not in the huge numbers […]
A Tale of Two Turtle Ladies
There are those cherished individuals who make life better for other people, and there are those unfortunate individuals who make life more difficult for those around them. These two current news stories illustrate this perfectly. Juanita Schultz, an elderly Englewood beachfront homeowner, is known to call law enforcement to chase beachgoers off her beach, […]
Coastal Wildlife Club Turtle Patrol
Most any stretch of beach in Florida with sea turtle egg-laying activity has volunteer caretakers who carefully monitor the nesting and keep careful records. The Coastal Wildlife Club in the Englewood, Florida area keeps track of the nests on the beaches in Lee, Charlotte and Sarasota Counties, including Manasota Key, Palm Island, Little Gasparilla Island […]
“False Crawls” by Nesting Sea Turtles Under Investigation
Sea turtles leave the security of the ocean and crawl up onto Florida beaches at night during the summer to dig a hole and lay their eggs. Sometimes they crawl back to the water without digging a nest and without laying eggs. This is called a “false crawl.” Scientists want to figure out why some […]
Sea Turtle vs Dry Land Tortoise
As you are walking along a trail to the beach in Florida, you might come across a turtle like the one above, slowly dragging itself along behind the parched, dry, scorching hot sand dunes. You might be tempted to move it down to the water’s edge…but DON’T!!! This is a Florida gopher tortoise. They do […]
Sea Turtles Hatching on Fort Desoto Beach Attract Attention
Terry Tomalin recently wrote an article for the St. Pete/Clearwater Area CVB website about turtles on Fort Desoto Park beaches. Here’s a quote from the article in which Terry speaks with park supervisor Jim Wilson: In a typical year, more than 150 loggerhead sea turtles successfully nest on St. Petersburg/Clearwater area beaches, and of those, […]
