Saturday, November 14, 2026
Photo by Maria Lamb
| What is a false crawl? A false crawl is when a sea turtle comes ashore but for some reason gets startled or unhappy with the area and returns to the sea without making a nest or laying her eggs. Imagine yourself as a 300+ sea turtle, dragging yourself to shore with your flippers and someone left their towel or a beach chair making it harder for you to find the right spot. In the water, sea turtles are buoyant and graceful, but on land, they are slow and cumbersome. Please keep the beach flat and clean for our sea turtles during nesting season.
Sea Turtle Activity Update May 11 – 17, 2021 | |||||||
| Total Nests | Total False Crawls | Total Hatched Nests | |||||
| This Year | Last Year | This Year | Last Year | This Year | Last Year | Disoriented | |
| Barefoot | 22 | 24 | 41 | 27 | |||
| Delnor Wiggins | 4 | 4 | 3 | 8 | |||
| Vanderbilt | 17 | 34 | 20 | 20 | |||
| Parkshore | 12 | 23 | 15 | 28 | |||
| City of Naples | 14 | 31 | 12 | 37 | |||
| Keewaydin Island | 30 | 32 | 31 | 59 | |||
| Sea Oat & Coconut Island | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Marco Island | 8 | 13 | 13 | 30 | |||
| Kice & Cape Romano | 12 | 10 | 8 | 19 | |||
| 10,000 Islands | 17 | 15 | 24 | 22 | |||
| Collier County Totals | 136 | 187 | 168 | 251 | |||
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