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QUINTANA, TX—A female Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, which is the only species known to come ashore during daylight hours to lay its eggs, was spotted earlier this morning, July 7, crawling across the beach at Quintana Beach County Park. Park officials notified U.S. Fish and Wildlife turtle rescue staff, who promptly came and removed 92 eggs from a shallow nest in the sand at the Brazoria County park located near Freeport, TX.

 

All eggs were transported to a hatchery lab at the Padre Island National Seashore just outside Corpus Christi, where after some 45 days of incubation, most eggs should hatch, and be released back into the Gulf of Mexico.

 

Read June 6, 2012 article “Kemp turtles seen on San Bernard Refuge beach”