July 29th Doming the Nests

Jackie Boyce is on left, her sister Olivia Boyce-Abel is in middle and Kat Boyce their niece is on right. Jackie & Olivia's Mother (Kat's grandmother) Anne Tilghman Boyce donated the land to Coastal Carolina University.

July 29th & 30th started out as a prize for James Island High students for placing 2nd @ the Regional National Ocean Science Bowl Competition.Karen Fuss was kind enough to extend an open invitation to all her Turtle Monitor Volunteers to join in on the evenings activities. The evening started out with pizza at the cottage. Desserts were provided by a few volunteers. Barb Demusz brought ice cream, Nancy Mercurio brought homemade crumb cake ( still warm in the pan ) and Karen Fox brought chocolate chip cookies. At 7:00 p.m. we set out to Waites Island to dome nests 1,2 & 3. Our group was quite large with Karen Fuss,the 3 students Jason,Nick and Louis,their teacher Sue Morrison,two representatives from FFA Camp and several Turtle Monitors. We had a few members of the Boyce Family also join us and shared stories about time spent growing up on Waites.The doming process went well with Jason,Nick and Louis taking care of the redigging of the form for the cage. It was amazing how the weather had caused the sand to nearly fill the cage at one nest. This morning Karen"s guests joined the Wednesday Walkers and helped not only with the search for turtle crawls but also with cleaning up the beach. After checking Nest 10 we ventured over the Jetty to show them the Inlet side. On behalf of all the volunteers I'd like to wish Jason,Nick and Louis all the best as they prepare to start college next month. I will remember the bamboo reed and watermelon pinata. I'd also like to extend well wishes on behalf of all of our volunteers to Kathy Turnauer for a speedy recovery. Kathy was in a car accident and wasn't able to join her Wednesday walkers today. Posted 7/30/2008 by Chuck & Karen