Last night there was only one leatherback that showed up here along the beach. She was a tiny little girl and we found her nesting at about 10pm near the Seminole Golf Course. Her carapace (top "shell") is only 133 centimeters in length which ranks as one of the smallest turtles we have encountered. I sort of thought she looked like a big loggerhead when I first saw her.
The loggerhead turtles are arriving on the beach in pretty good numbers now with about 40 crawls each night. As of last night, there are 147 loggerhead and 49 leatherback nests here on Juno Beach. On the other beaches we monitor each morning (Jupiter/Carlin and Tequesta), the numbers are pretty similar.
