So much has happened since I posted last!! It's hard to decide which pictures to post! Check these out... On my last Sapelo day we went seining for fish. That's when you take a giant net and stretch it out into the ocean off the beach, then turn around and come back to see what you caught. You can see the other group in the deep end through the ropes of this group. The net was 300 feet long!
Found a puffer! It didn't like being picked up so much, so it puffed up with air (and floated when we put him back in the water.)
I've now started my fourth trip, on St. Catherine's Island (which is AMAZING!) I'm doing a sea turtle conservation internship helping to save these little guys. This is a Loggerhead hatchling that was a "straggler" in the bottom of a nest. We dug them out and pointed them toward the ocean. Incredible.
This has been my view for the past few days: from a John Deer Gator. They are SUPER fun to drive. Here we are going up a pretty steep hill. We got trapped on the beach because of high tide.
Here's another one of me and a baby turtle. Adorable.
St. Catherine's has a partnership with the New York Zoological Society, so there are all kinds of amazing exotic animals on the island. Here is a member of one of the Ring Tailed Lemurs that wander around. Apparently, there are six different troops!
They really loved our Gators. They would lick the salt from the ocean off the sides and look in the glove boxes for food. I had to snatch a bag of peanut M&M's from one of them.
We're releasing the babies tonight at 8:30, so check back for another video soon. Hatchlings almost always emerge at night when there are fewer birds to gobble them up.
Found a puffer! It didn't like being picked up so much, so it puffed up with air (and floated when we put him back in the water.) 
I've now started my fourth trip, on St. Catherine's Island (which is AMAZING!) I'm doing a sea turtle conservation internship helping to save these little guys. This is a Loggerhead hatchling that was a "straggler" in the bottom of a nest. We dug them out and pointed them toward the ocean. Incredible. 
This has been my view for the past few days: from a John Deer Gator. They are SUPER fun to drive. Here we are going up a pretty steep hill. We got trapped on the beach because of high tide. 
Here's another one of me and a baby turtle. Adorable. 
St. Catherine's has a partnership with the New York Zoological Society, so there are all kinds of amazing exotic animals on the island. Here is a member of one of the Ring Tailed Lemurs that wander around. Apparently, there are six different troops! 
They really loved our Gators. They would lick the salt from the ocean off the sides and look in the glove boxes for food. I had to snatch a bag of peanut M&M's from one of them. 
We're releasing the babies tonight at 8:30, so check back for another video soon. Hatchlings almost always emerge at night when there are fewer birds to gobble them up.
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