Tag: Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association

Boca Grande Sea Turtle Nesting Season

Through week ending: 6/10/26 Weekly turtle reports State Park Turtle Numbers Cayo Costa- 209 Loggerhead, 5 Green, 2 Leatherback Gasparilla- 10 Loggerhead Don Pedro- 113...

Sea turtle patrollers busy collecting nesting data

BY ARLENE HALLBOCA GRANDE SEA TURTLE ASSOC. With the first month of the 2026 sea turtle nesting season now finished, the Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association turtle patrol volunteers have...

Boca Grande Sea Turtle Nesting Season

Through week ending 5/27/26 Weekly turtle reports State Park Turtle Numbers Cayo Costa- 84 Loggerhead, 1 Green Gasparilla- 3 Loggerhead Don Pedro- 43 Loggerhead Stump Pass- 21...

Boca Grande Sea Turtle Nesting Season

Through week ending 05/20/26 Weekly turtle reports State Park Turtle Numbers Cayo Costa- 49 Loggerhead, 1 Green Gasparilla- 2 Loggerhead Don Pedro- 28 Loggerhead Stump Pass- 13...

Boca Grande Sea Turtle Nesting Season

Through week ending 05/13/26 Weekly turtle reports. BGSTA State Park Turtle Numbers Cayo Costa- 11 Loggerhead Gasparilla- 2 Loggerhead Don Pedro- 8 Loggerhead Stump Pass- 2...

Boca Grande Sea Turtle Nesting Season

Through week ending: 05/06/26 First week of weekly turtle reports. BGSTA

Grants, volunteers and planning help sea turtle season begin

Above, the Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association held its first meeting of the year earlier this month, in preparation for the upcoming sea turtle nesting season, which begins on May 1. For more...

Turtle Association needs help with funding, mule parking

BY THE BGSTA The Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association is sending out this SOS, in desperate need of local residents’ help in two areas: a place to keep our UTV during nesting season and financial...

The work behind Boca Grande’s sea turtle season

Every spring through fall, sea turtles return to Boca Grande’s shoreline to nest. The tracks they leave behind fade quickly with the tide, but the effort required to protect those nests does...

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Denise Juergens

February 5, 2026
Angela McPhillips
Profiles

Setting up for turtle season At sunrise, when Boca Grande’s beaches are still quiet, Denise Juergens is already out there. She walks the same stretch of sand most mornings, scanning for...