My Day at the Office

Rebecca sent me this picture from Little Cumberland Island, Georgia, earlier this afternoon. It was a daytime nester last night that she caught on camera with some friends. The very strange thing is that this particular turtle (Caretta caretta) was tagged in 1996, when Jordanna and I were the sea turtle team, and she hasn't been on the island since. How cool is that! She's now 110 cm!



It's been an interesting two days... There have been a lot of frisky dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) lately. These photos were from the Santa Rosa area of the park yesterday:







These are from a mating group near Fort Pickens today. Don't worry though -- I left out a lot of the photos. We took the boat out to replace buoys at Perdido Key and stopped along the Fort Pickens shallows on the way back.



It's interesting how the light and color change when the sun ducks behind the clouds.





















I was a little too closely focused to capture this leap, but I like the way the photo turned out anyway. Can you believe I was paid for this "work"?