Monday, August 29, 2011

Sea Turtle Rescue on The Outer Banks

Sea Turtle Rescue!


Found this little guy on the Village at Nags Head Golf Course on Sunday following Hurricane Irene.
We took him home and called N.E.S.T. to find out what we should do...for this baby we needed to put him in a bucket on wet sand and keep a towel over the top (they do not like a lot of light) to transport him to the NEST volunteers.

We nicknamed him Titleist (yes as in the golf ball).  We found him in the clumps of seaweed that washed up on one of the fairways.


He is a baby Green Sea Turtle that probably hatched last weekend from one of the 3 nests located right here in Kill Devil Hills!









 At 9:00PM with the help of N.E.S.T. and the Roanoke Island Aquarium we released Titliest and 3 others into the ocean so they can make their swim to the Gulf Stream.



If you find a Sea Turtle or a nest on the Outer Banks please contact The NEST Hotline at 252.441.8622

2 comments:

Charity McKenzie Shick said...

Ginger....not sure how may ways I need to try to contact you to get an answer. Please send me an email regarding our wedding pictures.

Anonymous said...

Hi Ginger!
My name is Jane and I'm with Dwellable.
I was looking for blogs about the Village of Nags Head to share on our site and I came across your post...If you're open to it, shoot me an email at jane(at)dwellable(dot)com.
Hope to hear from you...we'd love to share your sea turtle experience!
Jane