Volunteers look for loggerhead gate crashers

Volunteers look for loggerhead gate crashers

A resident emailed us stating that just a little over a week after things got back to normal at the beach, a turtle laid eggs near where the Hangout Fest main stage was set up. That resident can rest assured that the local turtle czar and his team are on the look out for loggerhead party crashers every year. “We patrol the fenced area along the water around the clock watching for turtle issues,’’ said Mike Reynolds, founder of Share The Beach, which is now part of the Alabama Coastal Foundation.
“The nest you are referring to by the stage in 2019 was laid on June 6. This past season our first nest was on May 19, but it is not uncommon to have our first nest by May 10.’’
Sara Johnson is the new director for the Alabama Coastal Foundation’s Share the Beach sea turtle conservation and Adopt-A-Nest programs. (More info: alabamaseaturtles.com).