The clutches are usually over two dozen eggs, so there must have been 500 moved from Walton county alone – loggerheads and Kemp’s-Ridleys, Their shells are soft when they hatch, so they are ready prey for sea birds, as well as the bigger fish before they reach the relative safety of the sea grasses.

When you total up the entire Panhandle, the number will easily reach thousands, and I assume some will come from Alabama as well.

Ah, the joys of rural life.

And, yes, you gave the turtles the only chance they’ll have. They don’t look delicate but they really do have a very delicate thriving mechanism that doesn’t do great with changes. Man, I hope they make it. How many do you think got transported to the new area?

I actually do a lot of computer things off line to get the data into a format that I want to use in posts.

From what I see the East Coast is looking very HOT, with a lot of people who are not used to triple digits having to deal with them. I hope you’re far enough back from the coast that you don’t have to deal with them.

Yes, having to move the turtles was painful, but it was their only chance, because if they hatch out they’ll head for the sea grass which will be polluted. New sea turtles have a very high mortality rate at the best of times, and these aren’t the best of times.

P.S. I’ve been under the weather, but just checked in again and read the post about your sea turtles. D*mn. This nightmare is SO beyond anything we’ve ever experienced in this country. People just don’t know yet. But I’m rambling again – this post is for another subject but I suppose occasionally that happens.