Before the sun rises, turtle watchers take to the beach
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Volunteers Jan and Eric Linden walk Sadler Beach before the sun has risen, keeping an eye out for turtle tracks leading to a nest.
This time of year, marked sea turtle nests such as this one scatter Amelia Island’s beaches.
Amelia Island Sea Turtle Watch volunteer Eric Linden hammers a stake into the sand, marking the area surrounding the nest he and his wife Jan found earlier that morning.
Civil twilight – that’s when the walkers start walking.
Every morning before the sun rises, volunteers from the Amelia Island Sea Turtle Watch start along their assigned sections of the beach. They wal…