Overnight Beach Chairs on Marco Block Nesting Sea Turtle
Tracks show that a Sea Turtle came up against the beach loungers and crawled back to the water. The incident was reported to Marco Island Police Department.
This Mote Marine photo shows how a sea turtle can get trapped inside a beach chair.
Photo by Mike Herron, Mote Marine
A row of beach loungers blocked a sea turtle from nesting causing a false crawl on Mother’s Day morning.
What happens when a nesting loggerhead comes ashore and encounters large obstacles such as beach furniture? The encounter may cause them to crawl back to the water without depositing their eggs. For the week of May 7thto the 13th, eleven false crawls were recorded on Marco beaches.
According to Sea Turtle Monitor Tyler Beck, a row of beach loungers left overnight on the beach blocked a loggerhead from nesting as she came ashore early Mother’s Day morning. He reported this incident to Marco Code Enforcement and stated, “Tracks lead straight to the chairs and went back into the water. With false crawls like this, we call this an obstructed nesting attempt.”
According to the Sea Turtle Conservancy, there is also increasing documentation of nesting females becoming entrapped in beach furniture. Marco Island has specific rules during the Sea Turtle season that each night, hotels and beach vendors should remove all beach furniture from the beach by 9:00 PM and return them back to the beach in the morning only after the sea turtle monitors or surveyors have given the “all clear.”
Let’s keep Marco’s beach sea turtle friendly – fill in all holes before you leave the beach and remove all furniture from the beach by 9:00 PM through October 31st.
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