R.S. Crossin Green Sea Turtle 1968 Mckean Island 22 Oct. Pet (one of the Serpys boys) saw a Q on the beach digging tonight. West Beach down at the S end where large sandy beach is prevalent. 23 Oct. went down, and dug out a turtle nest when Pet saw the animal on myst Q 22. The nest was a long ditch rather than a hole. The animal entered from the sea; started digging in the soft sand, at the edge of the beach crest - digging in a NE direction for about 12 ft. The ditch was then covered as the animal dug forward, thus leaving a long mound with a pile at the pond & termination. Tracks Q the animal then led directly back to the sea. A total of about 20 digging places are along this west beach. I dug into the first nest and struck egg at about 3/4 feet deep - there were in a pocket and more or less about in the center of the long mound. There was about 30+ eggs in the pocket. I did not dig into the earlier nest (longitudinal) as it was coming in. Egg fresh, perfectly round with a shell, one letter shell - pure white-feet. Red fond and very recently hatched young. Crawling by my tent on night of 19 Oct. This was the only one I saw that night. The parent digging on night 22 was about 3/4 ft across. 23 Oct. About 30 small turtle began scampering all along the beach in front of my tent right at dusk. Several were heading in the wrong direction and. There were R.S. Crossin Green Sea Turtle 1968 Mckean Island 24 Oct. Concluded + sent mentally on their way to sea. We could not detect where they had emerged from, but probably the original surface signs by the nest had been obliterated by people tramping through the area and to the best of our knowledge the little turtle hurrund up from near a wooden boat which was just on the top of the beach crest. All little turtles went waddling down the beach as fast as they could and I course where able, to swim immediately upon reaching the water. All went directly out through the surf area + or out to sea. A day or so earlier the diving crew from Serpys had surrendered two shells regulating offshore in the water.