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From Padre Island NS Division of Sea Turtle Science & Recovery A Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatching release is scheduled for 6:45 am on Saturday August 3 at Padre Island National Seashore, on North Padre Island. No fee is charged to watch our public hatchling releases. However, sometimes hatching speeds up or slows down, necessitating cancellation of the scheduled public release. So before you come out to the release, MAKE SURE to check this Facebook page or call the Hatchling Hotline at 361-949-7163 to check if the turtles are ready for release on schedule. If the release must be cancelled we will post a cancellation message on this Facebook page and on our Hatchling Hotline. If these cancellation messages have not been done by 2:00 am on Friday August 2, then the release will be held as scheduled. RELEASE DIRECTIONS: The release will be held in front of the Malaquite Beach Visitor Center at Padre Island National Seashore. To attend, follow park road 22 out to Padre Island National Seashore. No fee is charged to attend the release. If the National Seashore Entrance Station is open, identify that you are attending the release, and you will not be charged park entrance fees. About two miles after the National Seashore Entrance Station, you will see a hatchling release sign on the right and the large Malaquite Beach Visitor Center parking lot on the left. You should turn left there, park your vehicle in the large lot, and meet on the deck of the Visitor Center. A park ranger will meet you there to deliver a program about the turtles and lead you to the release site. However, the hatchling release sign and ranger will not be present until about 6:20 am. At the release, you should not bring or eat food since it will attract gulls, and you should not wear white colored clothing or white colored footwear or take photos using a flash, since all of these will disorient the hatchlings. After the release, you are welcome to visit our Visitor Center, which will before the end of the release. We have sea turtle and other educational displays, Adopt-A-Turtle packets, and other items for sale. If our Concessions store is open you will be able to purchase drinks, snacks, items to use on the beach, and souvenirs. Both can be accessed on the deck where you met for the program before the release. If you want to spend the day at the National Seashore after the release, we ask that you return to the Entrance Station to pay entrance fees, which help support some park facilities. FUTURE RELEASES: As of Friday morning, 4 clutches have not yet been released from the group expected to be released between about August 1 and 5. It is too early to know how many clutches from this group will be released in the next 24 hours and hence whether any will be remaining in incubation from this group and potentially available for a public release on Sunday or Monday. Hatchlings from the next group of 4 clutches will be released sometime between August 10 and 13. Hatchlings from the last Kemp's ridley clutch will be released sometime between August 23 and 25.

FOP BEACH REPORT 080213 Air Temp: 84 Water Temp: 84 (8mm) 78 (51mm) Wind: 5 SE Waves: 1ft Water Clarity: Crystal clear to the 40. Beach at the 7 mile area South of 40 is dirty due to upwelling. Pictured below in the 51 mile area Weed: Dead grass and weed length of beach. Not much of an issue. No new weed. Driving: Excellent until the 30 with spots of 4x4 south. Birds: 1 White Tailed Hawk, 12 Curlew, 19 Marbled Godwit, 1100 Black Terns and the normal birds of summer. Cold water upwelling is still present south of the 40 but is only to the 1st or 2nd bar. Seems to be clearing to the south. Bait is present the length of the beach. Birds started working offshore around 1 o’clock. Note: These reports are made possible by your donations. Friends of Padre appreciates your support.  If you would like to help fund these reports please click on the link below

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One row of surf early with whitecaps to the horizon in the afternoon. Lots of fresh grass from the end of the pavement to the 36 mile. No or little grass south of there. Very little bait observed and the full moon has everything laying low; as always. Driving was almost entirely hard packed and was good driving. I monitored birds but my recorder died on the way in and I lost the data. Marbled Godwits, a handful of Curlews, Turnstones and Black Bellied Plover were observed. I had a possible Brown Noddy fly by offshore down in the 40s but could not be sure. Lots of Wilson’s Plover and quite a few “Peep” Sandpipers. Capt. Billy The Friends of Padre organization works hard to provide funding and assistance to Padre Island. If you wish to assist our efforts we would greatly appreciate your donations. Our sole mission is to preserve the natural beauty of the island and all it's resources. Please click the donate button below to contribute. You will be directed to a paypal page in order to process your payment.

A Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatching release is scheduled for 6:45 am on Saturday July 27 at Padre Island National Seashore, on North Padre Island. No fee is charged to watch our public hatchling releases. Six clutches are in various stages of hatching so there is a good chance that the release will be held as scheduled. However, sometimes hatching speeds up or slows down, so before you come out to the release, MAKE SURE to check this Facebook page or call the Hatchling Hotline at 361-949-7163 to check if the turtles are ready for release on schedule. If the release must be cancelled we will post a cancellation message on this Facebook page and on our Hatchling Hotline. If these cancellation messages have not been done by 2:00 am on Saturday July 27, then the release will be held as scheduled. RELEASE DIRECTIONS: The release will be held in front of the Malaquite Beach Visitor Center at Padre Island National Seashore. To attend, follow park road 22 out to Padre Island National Seashore. No fee is charged to attend the release. If the National Seashore Entrance Station is open, identify that you are attending the release, and you will not be charged park entrance fees. About two miles after the National Seashore Entrance Station, you will see a hatchling release sign on the right and the large Malaquite Beach Visitor Center parking lot on the left. You should turn left there, park your vehicle in the large lot, and meet on the deck of the Visitor Center. A park ranger will meet you there to deliver a program about the turtles and lead you to the release site. However, the hatchling release sign and ranger will not be present until about 6:20 am. At the release, you should not bring or eat food since it will attract gulls, and you should not wear white colored clothing or white colored footwear or take photos using a flash, since all of these will disorient the hatchlings. After the release, you are welcome to visit our Visitor Center, which will before the end of the release. We have sea turtle and other educational displays, Adopt-A-Turtle packets, and other items for sale. If our Concessions store is open you will be able to purchase drinks, snacks, items to use on the beach, and souvenirs. Both can be accessed on the deck where you met for the program before the release. If you want to spend the day at the National Seashore after the release, we ask that you return to the Entrance Station to pay entrance fees, which help support some park facilities. buy cialis

Air Temp: 82 Water Temp: 86 Wind: 10 NE Waves: 3-4 ft Water Clarity: Mostly green north of the 37 with patches of dirty water.  South of the 37 is chocolate milk.  Dirty water was trying to clear on the falling tide. Weed:  North of the 25 there is a lot of new weed coming in.  Large mats can be seen seen outside the 3^rd bar. South of the 25 it’s spotty.  The NE winds over the last couple of days will continue to bring more in.  Until we get a steady SE wind it will be an issue, especially for soaking bait. Driving:  Over the last couple of days, the storms have pushed up the water.  It has deposited lots of debris on the beach along with the weed.  There is a road until about the 20, after that it disappears at the high tide line.  There is no road south of the 30.  With the heavy traffic on the beach this weekend it should improve once a road is formed.  It is 2 wheel drive due to the packed sand from all the rain.  That could change very quickly though. Birds: 4 Black Terns, 16 Marbled Godwit, 12 Curlew and the regular birds of summer. Did not see any bait the length of the beach.  Very few birds except where the weed was washing in.  3 Coyotes, 1 doe, and 1 buck. The Friends of Padre organization works hard to provide funding and assistance to Padre Island. If you wish to assist our efforts we would greatly appreciate your donations. Our sole mission is to preserve the natural beauty of the island and all it's resources. Please click the donate button below to contribute. You will be directed to a paypal page in order to process your payment.