RS Cossin Green Sea Turtle 1768 McKean Island 22 Oct. Pits (myg the Serppo boys) saw a & On the beach digging tonight. West beach at the S end where large sandy beach is prevalent. 23 Oct. went down and dug out a turtle nest where Pits saw the animal on myself 9 or 10. 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 nest - digging in a NE direction for about 12 ft. The ditch was covered as the animal dug forward, thus leaving a long mound with a little at the point of termination. Tracks. The animal then did directly back to the sea. A total of about 20 digging places are along this nest beach. I dug into the fresh nest and struck eggs at about 3th feet deep - there were in a pocket and more or less about in the center of the mound. They were about 30+ eggs in the pocket. I did not dig up the entire nest (congratulations as it kept coming in). Eggs fresh, perfectly round with a slight curve on the shell - pure white flesh. All found one very recently hatched young, crawling by the tents on night of 19 Oct. This was probably only one he saw that night. The present digging on night of 22 was about 3/4 ft across. Not about 30 small turtles began scrambling all about the beach in front of camp right at dusk. Several were heading in the wrong direction and some once RS Cossin Green Sea Turtle 1768 McKean Island 24 Oct. concerted & sent menilly 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 subliterated by people tramping through the area and to the best of our knowledge the little turtles harnessed up from near a wooden boat which was just on the tip of the beach crest. All little turtles went walking from the beach as fast as they could and of course where able, to swim immediately upon touching the water. All went directly out through the surf area or in out to sea. A day or so earlier the diving nets from Cayyips had secured two skulls regulating offal in the water.