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So if this were a race to the nesting beach, you might be inclined to think Christie is going to win it. I’m not so sure.

The turtles are staying their courses. Beverly is a little bit further east. Asha continues to meander in and out of Canadian waters. And Christie is motoring south.

Most turtles are thousands of kilometers south of where we initially satellite tagged them by now. Christie is an excellent example of this. She is the classic post-foraging (feeding) season [...]

This is, I have to say, an awesome year for turtle tracks. Christie, Beverly and Asha are still making interesting moves.

These turtles are not in a hurry. They’re starting their migration to the nesting grounds, but they aren’t definitively swimming south yet.

In great news, Asha has left Cape Cod Bay! This is her track as of this morning.

It looks like Christie and Beverly are going to head out of Canadian waters soon.

Asha is worrying us big time. She is in a very dangerous spot for leatherbacks these days: Cape Cod Bay.

When we first started studying leatherbacks in Canadian waters, the hypothesis was that if the turtles were here in any numbers at all (and—as funny as it seems now, at the time, that was a big [...]

The sea turtle field season, which has just ended, is our most exciting time. It is also our busiest.