Loggerhead Sea Turtles
Returning Home
From May to October each year, Fripp Island experiences a wonder of nature. It is during this time that the loggerhead sea turtles return to nest. Each year dozens of adult females come ashore, on various stretches of beach, to lay a clutch of 100 or more eggs. Many of these females were born on the island only to return some 20 to 30 years later to nest.
Each female will nest and lay eggs 3-5 times each season, digging an egg chamber near dunes away from rising tides. After laying her eggs, the turtle will return to the ocean before returning 12 to 14 days later to build another nesting spot. After the final nesting, turtles return to the ocean and will repeat the cycle every 2-4 years.
Hatchlings
A sea turtle egg will incubate in about 60 days. This varies a bit with temperature, with warmer conditions leading to faster development of the embryos. Interestingly, cooler sand has a tendency to produce more males, while warmer sand produces more females. Once an embryos has fully developed, the hatchlings break out of their shell using “a temporary, sharp egg-tooth, called a ‘caruncle.’ The caruncle is an extension of the upper jaw that falls off soon after birth.” (conserveturtles.org) Now out of their shells, the little hatchlings somehow know to emerge from the sand. Usually emerging at night when the temperature is milder, they dig their way up through about 18” of sand. As a group, the newborns paddle their way to the top before beginning their journey across the sand. This process of emerging can take several days.
Heading to Sea
The journey to the sea is no small task for these little creatures. They must move quickly so as not to get dehydrated or become prey to birds or crabs. As mentioned earlier, many sea turtles return to the beach where they were born. Some scientists believe this is due to a turtle’s ability to read the earth’s magnetic field, while others believe the hatchlings takes an imprint of their birth beach, smell, sound, even celestial cues, while making the trek from nest to water. All pretty amazing, nonetheless.
What to Know
Here on Fripp Island, we are blessed to be a key location for loggerhead nesting along the east coast of the US. With that, it is our responsibility to be good stewards of their habitat and respect their space. To that effort we have the Fripp Island Loggerhead Patrol, made up of volunteers, which monitors and marks nests along the beaches each day throughout the season.
See their photo albums and logs:
Thank you, Fripp Island Loggerhead Patrol! We really appreciate all of your hard work.
If you are fortunate and see an adult female nesting, or traveling to or from the ocean, it is very important to maintain a 20’ distance and be sure to stay clear of her path. Also, do not use flashlights while walking on the beach. If you encounter the hatchlings rising from the sand, or making their way to the water, do not get near and, again, do not use any lighting. Hatchlings rely on the moon over the water to guide their way and can get easily turned around if another light source is nearby.
If you see a hatchling moving away from the ocean, DO NOT pick it up, as it is against federal law to touch a sea turtle without the proper permit. If you see a hatchling and are worried about the direction in which it is moving, please call Fripp Island Security or the Activity Center at (843)-838-1516. (Source: Fripp Island Resort)
The wonders of Fripp island are abundant and the seasonal nesting of loggerhead sea turtles is no exception. Enjoy from a distance and share in the amazing process that has been going on for more than 100 million years!
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🐢Loggerheads turtles have some of the most powerful jaws in the ocean which they use to crush hard shell prey like conchs and crabs. Every time I see a Loggerhead turtle it`s like being in the presence of a dinosaur. They like to be deep so of all the turtle species we don`t encounter these very often
🐢They have existed for about 110 million years, and have remained largely unchanged since they swam alongside dinosaurs. They are one of the "ancient species" that survived the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs.
🐢As you can see this one has a severe injury on his shell. He was likely hit by a boat when coming to the surface to breathe. They can hold their breath for about 4 hours until they have to surface to breathe. They get up to about 450lbs like this big adult male.
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Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Bournemouth Oceanarium
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Taken with Canon EOS 700d
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This was such a mystical experience.. watching a giant Turtle Mother lay her eggs in the sand 🐢 ✨
I wanted to celebrate my birth by celebrating this planet, this earth, & her amazing creatures 🌊 for a lil get away.
Such a sentient being she was, so powerful!
I felt her energy on the sand,
it was Mother Goddess energy,
ancient... a strong will of survival no matter how.
When she started laying it had a pure sense of magic.
I could feel a connection between her eggs & pearls...
luminous glow & delicate, forming true beauty.
The soft flesh that delivers them
& the hard outer shell of protection & home, were parallel in these beings of the ocean 🐚
What a gift... 💙
We could only take a few shots after she had finished laying, of the Loggerhead Turtle. Her shell was one metre long & she used all her weight to bury the eggs in the sand beneath her. She will lay 5clutches of over 100 eggs.
Mon Repos Beach QLD.
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Ras al Jinz, the Turtle Reserve. Oman prend au sérieux son rôle de conservateur des tortues vertes en voie de disparition.
On peut donc les voir le soir, avec un guide, dans le silence et à la lumière rouge afin de ne pas les déranger.
Les tortues viennent alors pour 2h afin de creuser leur nid, pondre et repartent pour ne plus jamais revenir.
Une centaine d’oeufs ne donneront finalement que 2-3 tortues à l’âge adulte, les prédateurs terrestres, maritimes et aériens étant nombreux.
C’est un spectacle inoubliable que de les observer et, tout à coup, de découvrir de minuscules tortues, à peine sorties de leur coquille, courir vers la mer.
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Mercredi 5 novembre 2025
Avec Michel
This is one shell of a comeback story! 🐢
Thanks to a HUGE team effort from passionate and dedicated turtlesintroublefc volunteers, after months in care at australiazoo Berry the loggerhead sea turtle was successfully released back into the wild! 🥲👏🏽
💚 A massive thank you to Donna and Fraser Coast Mayor geo_seymour for your time, unisc.australia and all involved in Berry’s journey!
ℹ️ If you’d like to donate or learn more about this incredible not-for-profit visit turtlesintroublerescue.org.au
📍Filmed on Butchulla Country
📷 Drone footage by offtheloungephotography
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Zakynthos Turtles and their drag paths - the loggerhead Sea Turtles make their nesting area on the beautiful island, particularly in Laganas Bay.
The marked nesting areas you see in the videos are used to avoid public disturbance and often their “drag paths” can be seen etched in the sand as these beautiful turtles come to shore to lay their eggs. 🐢🐢🐢
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🌊🐢 Ever stared at the ocean and wondered if it whispers secrets to ancient navigators? Meet the Indo-Pacific sea turtles – loggerheads and greens turning the Pacific into their personal GPS playground, paddling 8,000 miles from Australia`s Great Barrier Reef to Baja California`s jellyfish buffets, all tuned to Earth`s magnetic vibes like living compasses! 🧭 As your Factopia host and a beach bum who once spent a whole sunrise untangling a fishing line to free a tiny crab (felt like a hero for five minutes), these shelled superstars humble me every time. They`re not just migrating; they`re rewriting survival stories in real-time.
This 2025? Satellite tags on 300+ turtles lit up a "lost year" drama: One fierce female veered 1,500 miles off-course into the Indian Ocean`s plastic-choked gyre, dodging debris like a ninja before looping back after 18 months – her clutch hatching at a stunning 95% success rate, per Leatherback Trust live tracks! But hold up – fresh from the Loggerhead STRETCH project, 28 juveniles were just released into the North Pacific on July 8, zipping toward Mexico with micro-tags revealing warmer currents pushing routes southward faster than ever. Ocean heat`s shifting jelly blooms, forcing these 200-million-year-old mariners to improvise amid shark patrols and trash tides. Girl (or guy?) power at its fin-flipping finest – if they can hack that, we can tackle Tuesday, right?
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A long day`s work at sea rewarded with a very rare Loggerhead Turtle sighting at Sardinia bay, a stunning sunset, and making new friends
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The Fripp Island Resort offers a Turtle Walk nature program to visit the nests and learn about these magnificent creatures. May through September.
☏ 843-838-1516
