Working on sea turtles in North Carolina represents a great opportunity to do collaborative and cooperative work. It also means that I rarely, if ever, get a chance to go out on the beach alone to see turtles or their nests. However, occasionally, things work out that way. In early August, I received a phone call from a local homeowner on Atlantic Beach who said he saw a fresh turtle crawl on the beach while he was out jogging. I went to check it out and sure enough, it was a nest (see above photo). As part of our ongoing beach nourishment impact assessment project, I put a datalogger in the middle of the cluth (see below photo). There was someone doing roofwork on a beach-side house nearby, and after watching me for 20 minutes, he yelled "Is that a turtle nest?" I yelled back that it was, and he waved and continued nailing tiles on the roof, apparently used to seeing turtle nests on the beach. For me, I was just happy to be out on the beach getting my hands sandy.