Two days ago I received a call that both of the double nests had hatched the night before. I took my nightly walk that night, but the nest looked undisturbed. These are the same nests that had Ghost Crab holes in them the previous days. I will really disappointed when I was informed that I had missed the hatching. This morning I was able to go to the nest with the Turtle Patrol and watch them dig up the rest of the nest and take an inventory on all of the eggs and unhatched turtles. Although we didn't find any live sea turtles, we did find a baby that didn't make it out.
There is still one more nest left on our beach. The Turtle Patrol told me to go when it's dark during high tide, so I'm going to wake up and check until the final nest hatches. They also said that they think that last nest will hatch this week, so hopefully we will be able to catch it.
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