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Loggerhead Turtle at Hilton Head

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If you're on Facebook do a search for the Coastal Discovery Museum page; on July 7 they put up a video of a female returning to the ocean after coming up to the dunes to lay her eggs. Like the speaker says, it's "really really lucky" to get to see this.

This link may/may not work (the other day I posted one that worked for a short time then didn't :shrug:): https://video-lga1-1...
 

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great! very interesting, and thanks for that.
 

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The link Sue posted didnt' work for me.

This is the closest I could come:
David Lauderdale: Seeing Loggerhead Turtle Lay Eggs Moves Hilton Head Bystanders to Tears - by David Lauderdale/ Opinion/ The Island Packet/ islandpacket.com

Barry Ginn of Hilton Head Island had an early-morning meeting with God on the beach Wednesday.

That's what it seemed like when he came across a rare sight: a loggerhead turtle burrowed in a dune, water flowing from her eyes as she laid eggs in the sand.

"It's really overwhelming," Ginn said.

It's an ancient ritual islanders know well, thanks to the 30-year-old Hilton Head Island Sea Turtle Protection Project. As of Thursday, its volunteers have marked 124 nests so far this season.

But because the lumbering turtles come onshore at night, rarely does anyone see her dig a hole, deposit 100 or so leathery eggs in it, cover it with sand and then crawl back into the ocean. She won't be there in 60 days to see the tiny hatchlings. They, too, will head for the ocean, but their little tracks won't look like the tractor gouges of a mother they never knew..."

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Photographer captures sea turtle laying eggs on Hilton Head IslandHilton Head Island resident Barry Ginn took these photos of a sea turtle that he came across on the morning of June 10, 2015 while walking the beach of Hilton Head.

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We are in Hilton Head this week and saw one turtle nest taped off near Sonesta resort in the Shipyard Plantation. Idoes anyone know where I could find a piece of jewelry that had a loggerhead turtle
 

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There is a nest in close proximity to the Surfwatch boardwalk.
 

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We are in Hilton Head this week and saw one turtle nest taped off near Sonesta resort in the Shipyard Plantation. Idoes anyone know where I could find a piece of jewelry that had a loggerhead turtle

You can check Forsythe Jewelers on Lighthouse Road in Sea Pines, or The Bird's Nest at Coligny Plaza.

You might be able to find something at the Gift Shop at the Coastal Discovery Museum, with the added bonus of supporting the local protection efforts. :)
 
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There is a nest in close proximity to the Surfwatch boardwalk.

We were there in June and my sister was out early enough in the morning to see tracks from the dunes to the water, with the nest not yet roped off. Standing on the beach looking towards SurfWatch it was to the right about twenty feet from the boardwalk. I wonder if that's the same one?
 

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I got a bracelet and a necklace at the coastal discovery museum. So thank you very much. I am a science teacher and am fascinated by the loggerhead turtles. We leave for home in the morning. It was a good trip
 

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For those of you that are fascinated with the loggerhead turtles I just came across a cartoon /video about them. If this is old news...oops, I'm sorry, but the video Turtle Tales is a cute little cartoon about the loggerhead turtles. I loved watching it with my grandson.....it is even a little science lesson for kids. I may show it to my students this year:) :) :)
 
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