Turtle Tracks

No new hits from Asha. We’ve heard nothing from her tag since February 11. She has officially gone offline.

There are sloppy snowflakes flying outside my window as I type. The traffic is moving slowly, wipers going, trying to slough off the accumulating snow.

This is what I mean. You just never know. Asha’s tag is transmitting again—not regularly, but enough to let us know where she is.

Beverly is still way north and east of where we’d expect to see her. She’s only about 330 km from the Azores! Christie is just where we’d expect her—about 1,600 km from Trinidad, where she should [...]

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 [...]

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.