As Tropical Storm Fay threatened Southwest Florida Monday, sea turtle monitors worried because a storm surge could wipe out sea turtle nests along the Lee County beaches.
The storm came in south of Lee County and moved inland. So there was no surge, keeping our nests safe.
Amanda Bryant, coordinator of the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation's Sea Turtle Program, said that our nests are in really good shape and as far as she knows, we haven't lost a nest to the storm. However, some of the nests on lower beaches were washed over. So, time will tell if that did harm to the turtle eggs. For now, it is just a relief the storm passed us by and no nests were washed out.
2 comments:
Most excellent news Tootie!
Wow...what wonderful news..
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