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Seems like deja-vu again.

As before, Catherine started getting new data from a satellite tag that had appeared to have stopped working months ago. The new signals all gave locations close to each other, near the inshore beach side of Shackleford Banks. Off we went in the boat to look for the turtle to which she had attached the tag in 2003. When we got to the spot that the satellite data said the turtle would be, there was no turtle. So, off we went on foot: Ari, Catherine, Wendy and me, looking for the turtle. Unfortunately, we didn't find Catherine's mystery turtle, but it was beautiful out there and we did see some other things that were also interesting: birds, feral horses, and a rusted out shell of a car:

The question is: will the satellite tag transmit again later on? And if so, will we be able to find it?!?

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