Non Fishing Just Turtles

Early rise this morning to meet up with volunteers from Anna Maria Turtle & shorebird Monitoring as they excavated a couple of turtle nests that had been laid about 6 weeks ago. A great bunch of people who give their time for free from May to October walking the beach of Anna Maria looking for tracks that a turtle has come ashore and possibly laid her nest of around 100 eggs for the generations to follow. Sadly not all end in success as can be seen from these photos they shown unhatched egg which was done to Hurricane Irma that hit the island and covered the nests with water BUT sometimes Mother Nature helps out and some of the eggs had hatched and the hatchlings had made it safely to the sea to begin there 25 year adventure before setting flippers back on the shores of AMI again for future generations to gaze and wonder at.

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Back on AMI

Chilled out day today, walked the beach saw a couple of late season Tarpon rolling too far out to cast to anyway.

Decided to switch from the fly to bait tonight to see what's about. Cast net thrown and after a few attempts managed to get some shinners. Good sized Ladyfish landed and was bitten off a few times by what I presume would be Spanish Mackeral, upped the leader to 20lb and still got bit through was just about to switch to a wire tippet when the heavens opened and the thunder and lightning came which signalled a very wet and soggy end to the fishing.

Looks like the BBQ may be off, ah well time for a beer or 2 - there's always tomorrow