Our *front yard* following Gustav held very well. Kudos to Capn Howell and Pompano Jerry for initiating the fence and fertilizing program.
There was a loggerhead sea turtle nest positioned just to the left of the path. High waves breached our berm just after midnight (9/1/08 a.m.). Capn Howell had been checking every little while all evening. He had pounded a board "breaker" into the sand in front of the nest and piled sandbags around it but there is no holding back water powered by a hurricane.
As the nest caved in, (keep in mind we were in the dark, the rain and the waves roiling up carried all sorts of large and dangerous debris)and as the eggs were drenched in sea water, the eggs began to burst and hatchings boiled half hatched in a desperate attempt to survive. We had no time to get permissions to save them, we just did. More on that later.
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