Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center December Newsletter

8/13/2019 Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center December Newsletter

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This past year weve seen the Navarre Beach Sea Turtle

Conservaon Center (NBSTCC) start to bring to life the vision

carried in the thoughts and hearts of so many, for so long. Like

every hatchling emerging from its nest, the NBSTCC emergence

in 2013 brought many rsts. It began with receipt of our ocial non-prot, 501(c)3 charitable

status. This opened new doors of opportunity for us to raise funds. We took our mission public

with the launch of our Facebook page and were in awe at how quickly our fan base grew. This

plaorm also gave us a chance to engage the community and update sea turtle lovers on

Navarre Beachs 2013 nesng season. Our relaonship with the community grew quickly and

we were overwhelmed and humbled by the support, shared passion for sea turtles and

interest in the NBSTCC. This encouraged us to open our doors, for a preview of sorts, on a

limited basis so the community could enjoy the journey with us and watch us grow. Each week

we enjoyed showing visitors our progress and newest interpreve displays.

The Center became the hub of acvity: we hosted many special visitors, like the Loggerhead

Marinelife Center, Desnaon TV, and the

Boys and Girls Club of America. Another

key component to the center introduced

on July 24th of 2013 was the Seamore

Store, the ocial gi shop of the NBSTCC.

July was also the month we iniated

monthly Trash-Bash Events, organized

beach clean ups where volunteers and

community worked together to help keep Navarre Beach beauful and safe for all marine life.

Forging this unique relaonship with the community is a large reason for our success this year.

With your connued support we can make even larger waves in the future. It is impossible to

fully express how much the community has supported us, from those right down the road to

those scaered throughout the U.S.(Tennessee, Georgia, Washington State, Michigan, and so

many more.) We are truly humbled and invigorated by your support. Here s looking to a bigger

2014 and the moment when we can have our ocial ribbon cung to introduce not only our

expanded facility, but the new members that will call it home, our residenal sea turtles.

Ayearofrsts.

Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center

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2013 Nesng Recap

The 2013 nesng season on Navarre Beach endured double the

normal rainfall, storm surges and cooler sand temperatures

than usual. This past season Navarre Beach reported 12 nests

compared to 15 in 2012. However, there was one nest that

warranted special aenon due to its rarity on Navarre Beach,

a Green sea turtle nest, rst one in over 8 years. The good

news: Green sea turtle nesng is on the rise in Florida and we

are hopeful that next year Navarre Beach will see even more

Green sea turtles nests.

Nesng SeasonMay 1stthrough October 31st First Nest: June 3rd Last Nest: ugust 18th

Typical IncubaonPeriod 6070 days 65-72 days Actual incubaon periods 58 to 68

12 Total Nests 9 successful hatches 3 nests lost

Typical egg rangesLoggerhead 100120 per nest

Green 75200 per nest Lowest number of eggs 56 *Highest number of eggs 169

*Green sea turtles typically will have larger nests with more eggs per nest than Loggerheads. This year

the largest nest was the Green nest at 169 eggs! That s a lot of baby greens and hopefully a lot of girls

which will increase the probability that Navarre Beachs Green nests will be on the rise in years to come.

Photo Credit: Waldorff Photography

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Seamore here and I am super excited to introduce myself! I am a Loggerhead sea turtle andhave the very important job of represenng a new not-for-prot conservaon center, the

Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservaon Center (NBSTCC) here in Navarre Beach, Florida. As

their mascot I work to build relaonships within the community to not only bring awareness

to the Centers eorts but also the global plight of sea turtles. It is my goal to help inform

the community so they know how to make a posive impact on our local sea turtle

populaons as well as the sea turtle survival endeavor as a whole.

Mostly I spend my days hanging around the Center greeng visitors, talking turtle and

encouraging others to become good stewards for our marine environment. When the

opportunity arises, I also like to parcipate in community events, its always good to stretchthe ippers a bit! The past few months have been busy for me. I was able to aend Boo at

the Zoo with the Gulf Breeze Zoo in October and it truly ckled my shell to see all the turtle

costumes! In December I hung out with my jelly-head friends at the Black Friday sale and

recently enjoyed the brisk weather at Christmas in the Park, Jingle Fest on December 7th.

Should have worn my turtle neck that day! Us Loggerheads like warm waters but it was

good to see old and new friends.

Name: Seamore

Born: Navarre Beach, Florida

Age: Old enough to surf the gulfstream alone,

young enough to do it on my back!

Favorite Foods: Crab and Conch sandwiches

Favorite Song: Carea Carea (The Sea Turtle

Song) by Ty and Emily Curs

Favorite TV Show: The Octonauts

Favorite Movie: Finding Nemo

Favorite things to do: Make new friends and

swim the reef system on Navarre Beach.


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The Seamore Store, opened its doors on July 24th and we were ooded with

visitors and shoppers the enre day! We had visitors from Georgia, educators

from Gulf Breeze, locals who have been anxiously awaing a sneak peak! Weve

been making tracks ever since!

One component that helps make the Seamore Store a success is the people who

help us stock our shelves. Were more than a gi store, it is a showcase of the wealth oftalent from our arsan community. We are honored of the relaonships weve forged

with our Seamore Store partners. We work diligently to buy locally and support the

community that so generously supports us. When youre shopping at the Seamore Store,

youre not only giving to the ght to save sea turtles but youre helping support those

within our community. Addionally, all proceeds from the store go directly back into the

Center to help us with improvements, expansion and the ght to save sea turtles.

It is no surprise that the Seamore Store has proved to be one of our strongest, ongoing

fundraising acvies. This would not be possible without the support were received from

our partners. The volunteers of the NBSTCC want to give a hearelt thank you to

everyone that has supported us through the Seamore Store.

Chuck Chunn Foxy Bouque Je Waldor

Holley Hill Poery

Linda DesRoches

Angie Guidry Brupbacher

Lucy Jones Expression Screen Prinng Lawrence Metz

Spoon Me Up Jan Clark KT Bug Gis

A Special Place Pelican Lane Arts Turtle Bean

To our Seamore Store partners whose support is a key ingredient to our success, thank you and heresto making bigger waves in 2014!!!

New Store Hours for JanuarySaturdays Only: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.


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Turtle Fun Fact: Spit Shine & Turtle Wax:Cleaning Staons for Greens

The waters o of Hawaii are home to many greensea turtles and they are frequently seen around

coral reefs where their food source is plenful.

This environment allows for a symbioc

relaonship with reef sh. The reef sh eat the

algae from the sea turtles shell. The sh get a

free meal and the sea turtle gets a clean shell!

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Find us on Facebook: Help grow awareness for sea

turtles and conservaon of marine resources by

sharing our Facebook page.

SPECI L NNOUNCEMENTSDecembers TrashBash event will be postponed so volunteers and supporters can enjoyChristmas with their families. Well be back out in force January 25th so mark your calendars

and help save sea turtles!

Seamore Store: As the holidays come into view we will be closed to ensure our volunteers havethe opportunity to enjoy this me with friends and family. The Seamore Store will close for

the holidays making Dec 21st

the last day to shop before Christmas. We will reopen again

January 11th

with NEW STIORE HOURS for January, Saturdays Only from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Updated our websitedesign! Check it out and stay posted to our site(www.navarrebeachseaturtles.org)and FB Pagefor the latest updates.

Photo Credit: http://mauisundivers.com/scuba/refresher/

Wishing you and yours a very

Merry Christmas and HappyNew Year from everyone at the

NBSTCC.
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