Not So Stealth Camping

[Teegate]

First, we visited a site today for the first time that appears to be a favorite of snakes or turtles. I am not a shell expert so maybe someone can give their opinion. There are many locations in this one area that the shells were at. We will certainly check this site next year much earlier to try and catch them laying the eggs or the young leaving the area.

Now to the not so stealthy camping. We were exiting Quaker Bridge Sandy Ridge Road this morning and entering Tuckerton, when we were surprised at what we saw ahead of us. They even had an orange cone for traffic to be aware of them.

For your viewing pleasure.

Guy

 

[Sue Gremlin]

Raccoons have dug up turtle eggs in my yard and it looked like that.

 

[manumuskin]

First, we visited a site today for the first time that appears to be a favorite of snakes or turtles. I am not a shell expert so maybe someone can give their opinion. There are many locations in this one area that the shells were at. We will certainly check this site next year much earlier to try and catch them laying the eggs or the young leaving the area.
Yes those are turtle nests. The coons have dug them up.I must have seen a dozen nests day before yesterday in the woods dug up by them with several sporting fresh coon tracks in the sand.
I say those folks are begging for a ticket.I passed a bunch like that on Quaker Bridge/Batsto road at night once with a fire next to the road.I stopped and informed them they were on a major Ranger route and were real close to a ticket if one came riding by.They acted like I was being an A Hole and was lieing to them. My wife tried to get me to report them but this was before cell phones and in the middle of the night so I had no idea how to do that.I would have had no intention of doing that to any one but this A Hole had it coming and i would have had I had a way.
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Now to the not so stealthy camping. We were exiting Quaker Bridge Sandy Ridge Road this morning and entering Tuckerton, when we were surprised at what we saw ahead of us. They even had an orange cone for traffic to be aware of them.

For your viewing pleasure.

Guy

 

[Wick]

I would agree stealth camping at its finest!
You know you are camping to close to the road when you feel you need to put out a traffic cone to offer you some level of protection.
Do you think they actually brought a cone for this purpose?

 

[manumuskin]

They should have a sign on the road side as well.

 

[Teegate]

I would agree stealth camping at its finest!
You know you are camping to close to the road when you feel you need to put out a traffic cone to offer you some level of protection.
Do you think they actually brought a cone for this purpose?

Maybe someone passing by gave it to them

 

[lj762]

Raccoons have dug up turtle eggs in my yard and it looked like that.

Thanks for explaining that. I've been seeing lots of small round holes on a path near water, and didn't know what they were. Today I took a closer look, and there was some thin white material near the holes which I thought was plastic but was very thin and brittle. Unfortunately they are turtle egg fragments. Unfortunate for the turtles, that is.

 

[46er]

Unfortunate for the turtles, that is.

That could also be from their hatching.

 

[Sue Gremlin]

That could also be from their hatching.

Do they bring their eggshells up to the surface with them? I hope that's what happens.

 

[46er]

Do they bring their eggshells up to the surface with them? I hope that's what happens.

The box turtles that roam around our place always seem to drag some shells out with them. I have never seen them hatch, but its the same routine each year. I guess some shells get stuck to them. The shell remains disappear overnight.

 

[lj762]

That could also be from their hatching.

I've heard that it is too early for them to be hatching, so it is probably hungry critters.
This one below was much more intact that the others I saw, which were mostly just small pieces.