Bubbles in the Bathtub

Last night was the third night since we received our satellite tags. The first night after the tags arrived no turtles nested. The second night we had one turtle and put a satellite tag on her. You can follow her movements here.

Last night we got a call from Melissa at the BHIC at about 1:30am. They had a turtle on East Beach on Bald Head Island. Matthew and I headed out in our golf cart. When we got there the turtle had just finished nesting and was making her way down from behind some dead vegetation. The BHIC interns built a box around her when she got to the softer sand.

It was a fairly normal attachment, if you don't count the rain and raging thunder storm that broke out right in the middle. I would have taken pictures, but I had to put my camera in a plastic bag. And of course I forgot to bring a raincoat (as did Matthew), so we ended up huddling behind Melissa and an intern from the Conservancy who did have raincoats.

Below, I thought I'd share Matthew's patented technique for flaring out the epoxy used to attach the satellite transmitters using a simple piece of cardboard.

He says he prefers to use cardboard from Dr. Pepper 12-pack cases.

In any case, the turtle is away and you can follow her progress here.