We have a pattern going here. The beginning and end of the week had all the activity!
Monday, June 13 – It was a morning for the low number zones!
Zone 2 walkers Veronica L’Allier and Kathy Murray had a promising crawl in front of the yellow house. Linda and Bill Nelson (back on the beach) responded but unfortunately, it was a false crawl. Further down the beach, another crawl was found in front of the Beach Club Villas. Jennifer Gibson responded to this crawl and found Nest #23. 112 eggs were moved further back on the dune with the assistance of Kathy Murray.
Meanwhile, in Zone 1, Nancy Shenton with Kathy and Ron Chamerlain called with a crawl all the way to Privateer Creek. While she was waiting for Bill Middleton to respond, Kathy saw a mama 
turtle stick her head out of the water. Was she checking to confirm the walkers found her nest? Bill found nest #24 and determined it could be left in situ. There was another crawl near by which was determined to be a false crawl.
Those mamas are back to work on a Monday. Let’s keep up the pace for a busy week!
Tuesday, June 14 – The moms took the night off with no crawls on any of the zones.
Zone 2 had lots and lots of blue crabs in the rocks at the Pelican’s Nest. Dinner anyone?
Sadly we had a dead turtle on zone 1 just past the vehicle entrance. Terry Fansler and Sandy McCoss are doing the reporting to DNR on her.
Hope tomorrow is a better day on the zones. Stay cool.
Wednesday, June 15 – Darn. The girls gave us false crawls in the middle zones. Zone 2 had an in and out at the Beach Club Villas and Zone 3 had an in and out at the myrtles.
Zones 1 and 4 had no activity but all the nests were resting comfortably.
Have a fun day.
Thursday, June 16 – No activity! We don’t know where those mamas went for vacation but no nests again today.
Zone 3 had a false crawl in and out at the myrtles. Writing on pole needs updated for nest 17. Walkers on Friday will handle
Zone 1 reported Nest 6 needs one peg replaced. Tim will do this.
…..In Other News…
Cooper Cranfill, age 12, Joined the Junior Turtle Patrol Today. He will be working with Terry Fansler and other Junior Patrol Members this summer. Welcome Cooper!
Friday, June 17 – Zone 1 was the only area with any activity. There was an in and out crawl near the old pier. Bill Greuble checked it out but, unfortunately, he didn’t find a body pit.
Jacquie DePalma also saw a crawl about 50 yards past the last trash can. This time there were two body pits. There was also a dug hole left uncovered and a perfectly dug hole on the hard sand that Bill says was so perfect that it could have been dug with a trowel. That hole was even covered up. Unfortunately, there were no eggs. The only guess is that something distracted the mama from completing her laying process. Hopefully she’ll come back tonight.
All other zones reported no activity.
Saturday, June 18 – No crawls anywhere today,
On zone 2 nest 21 needs a new turtle sign and a crater is still there. Sandy and several of us will go work in the crater when the tide goes out in a few hours.
Good humor from Jen in zone 1. The tide was so high that she was holding a branch of one of the trees for Denisa to get around and it snapped back and she fell. She told Harvey not to paint her orange and have the camp bury her!
Sunday, June 19 – The phones were ringing this morning. Lots of activity.
Zone 4 texted first with nest #3 having exposed eggs from crab digging. Joshua & Amanda Shilko also sent a photo of nest #4 having been over washed. They reworked the sand over the nest. Harvey and Jen recovered the eggs at # 3 and rescreened it.
Zone 3 called and called and called. Valerie and Mark Doane and Susie Firesheets 
were busy with 3 crawls. The ones at walkways 4 and 6 were false but the crawl at walkway 3 was the real thing. Nest #25 was moved to walkway 5. Mark and Harvey had the false crawls while Valerie, Susie and Jen had the fun of moving the nest.
Zone 2 had Karen walking alone but she spied a crawl in front of the Beach Club Villas. Sandy MacCoss found nest #26 with 105 eggs. They moved it around the corner on North Beach.
Zone 1 – Bob McBride called with the sad news that we may have lost part of nest #24. The screen was hanging over the ledge. Sandy MacCoss and Karen Sewell moved 107 eggs from nest #24 to a new nest on zone 1 at the blue flags set out for nests by Terry, Gary Fanster and Bill Nelson last week. There were also 2 broken eggs in the original nest. Doesn’t look like we lost that nest after all.
Happy Fathers Day !!🌋
Submitted by Gary Fansler, Beautsie Zahrn and Judy Morr