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To: longnshort who wrote (273293)	2/10/2006 6:46:35 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) of 1575537

RE:"In North Carolina you can drive on the beach, what's wrong with fla, afraid of hurting some stupid turtle?" I suspect it became too dangerous. People were run over and killed. In the 70's you could drive on the beach in Daytona. Then they alternated years, then stopped it for good. As for the turtles. God bless 'em. They pre-date the dinosaurs. I used to walk the beach in Jupiter/Juno Beach at night during the turtle season (April to September) July 7 is the peak for Loggerheads, Leatherbacks come earlier and Greens later. My record was seeing 18 nesting/crawling loggerheads in one night on about a 1/2 mile of beach. Every now and the we'd run into a Leatherback. Some as big as a VW bug and 800 pounds. theturtleplace.com Later in the summer you get the green turtles. More than the no. of leatherbacks but not nearly as many as the Loggerheads. It's really a sight to see especially when you consider what the poor ole' turtle has to go through just to get back to the beach where it was born...to lay it's ping pong ball sized eggs. As you can see it looks like the overdevelopment and more people on the beach at night are taking their toll on the turtle nesting. theturtleplace.com

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