The 2017 Turtle Patrol Season will begin with the New Member Orientation and Kick-Off Meeting at the Lake House on Thursday, April 6th. The New Member Orientation will be held at 6:15 PM in the Osprey I Conference Room and the Kick-Off Meeting will be held at 7 PM in the Live Oak Hall. The New Member Orientation provides an overview of the Seabrook Island Turtle Patrol activities and the Kick-Off Meeting allows members to sign up for the various volunteer opportunities offered by the Patrol.
Reminder - Turtle Patrol Kick Off Meeting on Thursday, April 6th
The 2017 Turtle Patrol Season will begin with the New Member Orientation and Kick-Off Meeting at the Lake House on Thursday, April 6th. The New Member Orientation will be held at 6:15 PM in the Osprey I Conference Room and the Kick-Off Meeting will be held at 7 PM in the Live Oak Hall. The New Member Orientation provides an overview of the Seabrook Island Turtle Patrol activities and the Kick-Off Meeting allows members to sign up for the various volunteer opportunities offered by the Patrol.
Turtle Patrol Set to Kick-Off 2017 Season
The next Turtle Patrol season is just around the corner and the Patrol Leadership Team is already busy planning and organizing for 2017. Last years’ 60 nests, 6,545 eggs and 4,990 hatchlings kept the 150 Patrol members busy. But they’re all hoping for more in 2017.
The 2017 Turtle Patrol Season will begin with the New Member Orientation and Kick-Off Meeting on Thursday, April 6th. The New Member Orientation will be held at 6:15 PM in the Osprey I conference room and the Kick-Off Meeting will be held at 7 PM in the Live Oak Hall. The New Member Orientation provides an overview of the Seabrook Island Turtle Patrol activities and the Kick-Off Meeting allows members to sign up for the various volunteer opportunities offered by the Patrol.
Seabrook Island Recognized in New SCDNR Blog
As you can see from the blog post below, the Seabrook Island Turtle Patrol was honored for having the most volunteer hours in South Carolina!!!
Seven Superlatives for a Stellar Sea Turtle Season
Most Volunteer Hours
Seabrook Island's turtle team knocked it out of the park this year with 2,464 volunteer hours. Did we mention that many volunteer hours are clocked before dawn?
Inventory on Wednesday, September 14th
Nest #58 was found by Nancy Shenton & Ron & Kathy Chamberlain with Bill Nelson finding the eggs,The 80 eggs hatched in 46 days.
Shells 60
Unhatched eggs 20
Dead hatchlings 0
Live hatchlings 0
Total live 60
Hatch and Emergence success 74%