North Carolina Long-Term Sea Turtle Monitoring Project

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click map for full-size version This turtle nested on Topsail Beach and likely somewhere on Pleasure Island (south of Wilmington, NC). She subsequently headed southwest, through waters off of South Carolina, Georgia and now Florida

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Species: Loggerhead
Life Stage: Adult
Gender: Female
Release Date: 2010-07-08 05:13:00
Release Location: Topsail Beach, North Carolina
Last Location: 2010-09-08 01:10:41

Adoptive Parents:
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Background

This turtle was found by visitors to Topsail Island while she was crawling up the beach to nest. Several beach chairs that had been left out on the beach were in the path of the turtle. The family that reported the turtle moved the beach furniture out of the way so that the turtle would have a clear path.

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