As of tonight there are 53 leatherback nests in Juno and Jupiter. At this time last year we already had 82 nests. The season started off ahead of 2007, our highest year, but we are slowly falling more and more behind. Leatherbacks typically have alternating high and low nesting years, but since we were ahead for a couple of weeks we were hoping that it would be another big year. Maybe it just means they were early nesting this year. I guess we will have to wait until the end of the season to see how it plays out.
