Turtle watch (free Outer Banks camping)

[emorth]

From the North Carolina Beach Buggy Association:

Can You Help?
The National Park Service is asking for volunteers to help with the record numbers of turtle nests in the park this year. If you come to the Park to camp and have 2 weeks to commit, NPS will furnish a campsite for you in one of the park campgrounds. If you live here or are just visiting for a few days you can also volunteer if you are providing your own lodging. The work primarily involves raking the tire tracks in front of the nests generally in the 7:30 to 10:00PM time frame. It may also involve making sure fencing is all the way to the ground, clearing any obstacles from the nest to the water and reporting hatch events should you witness one.

This is an opportunity to assist the Park Service in a worthwhile effort to protect an endangered species. It goes to our Mission Statement as an organization to protect and preserve these creatures for future generations in addition to our efforts to preserve beach access.

Your assistance would be greatly appreciated. Contact
Nicole_Loiseau@nps.gov
or call 252-475-9042

to volunteer, or go to the website link below for more information.

Click here for more information

 

[BlackPanzer]

Thanks for posting! That is really something I would like to do... but this work thing has me committed more than I dedicate to the project. Darn! Had I know about this about a week earlier. I will be down in Oak Island, NC for a week, in September. Oak Island is across the mouth of the Cape Fear River, and the beaches are not Federally administered... Maybe a short ferry trip across the Cape Fear to the Outer Banks and National Seashores will at least provide a glimpse of the activity. The last time I was there (in Oak Island) volunteers were searching the beaches and parking lots during the full moon looking for hatchlings. It seems the hatchlings are attracted to streetlights- thinking they are the moon-- and head for them rather than the ocean. The job of the volunteers was to pick up the little guys and take them back to the ocean. I found three of them, they are cute- look like tinney-tiny versions of their larger selves.

 

[emorth]

I hope to be there next year.

 

[Stumpalama]

We want to take the girls... next year may be a good plan for us.