About mid-afternoon, the waves got very high. The tide was up exceptionally high. It had washed sand and shells all the way up into the dunes.
We saw 3 turtle nests that have been washed over, near access # 2.
Our last remaining nest in Zone 1, is gone; we couldn't even find the stakes. ;-(
I hope I am wrong, but I seriously doubt there will be a nest left on the island.
There is a high surf advisory here for 24 hours.
I looked back through the figures that had been sent to us and it looks like there were 266 nests on Sanibel;124 of those had hatched. If that figure is correct, then there would have been 142 nests still to hatch. I don't have the figures for Captiva, but it seems to me, that at one point I was thinking there were over 350 total nests adding both islands together.
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Oh, how sad. About how many nests were left, do you know?
That is so sad, I guess we have to be grateful that the storms didn't hit this hard in August, but it's still heartbreaking!
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