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Cottage Charm, Coastal Calm

August 2008

Thursday on the Island

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A typical day on our little coastal sea island:

  • Squirty the loggerhead sea turtle was released on the beach with hundreds of people cheering him on. Squirty said goodbye to the land and hello to the sea and went right to the ocean and swam off to enjoy the rest of his life as the wild sea creature that he is…. The Burton 4H Center will be receiving another baby turtle in the near future to raise and help educate the 100’s of children who attend the camp. We’ll be posting pictures of the release soon on this blog.
  • Fiddler Crabs at Fiddler on the Creek Cottage! I needed to stop by the cottage and went out to the dock and deck to admire the incredible beauty of the salt marsh. There all over the deck flooring were Fiddler Crabs! It was low tide and the little guys were all over the marsh mud and crawled up the dock. So much fun to see!
  • Storm clouds- summer storms are here, big black clouds rolling in and much needed rain fell on the island. Hot, hot, hot all week, the temputure hit 100 and with the heat index, over 105…..
  • Met with some of our exceptional City of Tybee team- we’re working on the grand opening for the Tybee Bark Parks ( new names for our dog parks) and Bryan and Chantell shared with me some of the other very exciting plans for the City….. I will DEFINETLY be sharing the updates with everyone soon as more details are firmed up. Be assured that the city officals are working hard to make this community the best she can be!
  • Helped out at Sea Side Sisters Coastal Cottage shop today. The shop looks better then ever and is still filled with wonderful beachy treats for yourself or your home.
  • And- countdown to the Summer Olympics! Tommorrow night is the opening ceremony! One of the true high lights of my life was attending with my family the Opening Ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. We had nose bled seats but it truly did not matter. I’ll never forget that evening as long as I live!
  • See everyone tommorrow at Douglas unveiling of Rhapel the Magnificient Sea Turtle!

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Ralphael the Magnificent Flying Turtle Un Veiling

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One of our most unique artists on the island, Ralph Douglas Jones, is hard at work on his newest creation, a life size sea turtle . Ralphael the Magnificent is made of antique cooper pieces from roofs, downspouts and other found pieces of cooper material. Douglas is very well known in art circles for creating art from anything he can find. He’s best know for his fish- fish made from old muscial instruments, water skies, pieces of board- you name it!
His wonderful open air gallery is located right beside SeaSide Sisters Coastal Cottage shop on Highway 80 when you first come on the island.

The un veiling and welcome to the world party for Ralphael will be held Friday August 8th, 2008 from 5PM- 8PM at his Gallery. The actual un veiling will be at 6PM. Popcycles will be served! You’ll be home in time for the Opening Ceremonies for the Summer Olympics which starts right at 8PM on NBC. ( 08-08-2008 this was intentional, in the Chinese Cultural, the number 8 is a very lucky number!)

Check back with us- we’ll have pictures of Ralphael on the blog very soon! http://www.fisharttybee.com/ or call Douglas @ 912 713 8647 for more details.

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The Pink Party

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Three of our Mermaids, Mary Elizabeth, Linda and Fallon had birthdays last week. To celebrate we had a Pink Party! Besides celebrating these three wonderful girls, the party was a chance to support the Coastal Pet Rescue ( http://www.coastalpetrescue.org/) one of our favorite Low Country non -profits which has helps find homes for dogs and cats in our area.

We participated in the Birthday Club where rather then bringing gifts ( after all at some point in your life we just don’t need more “stuff” ) you either bring dog/ cat related items that are needed ( dog food, pet toys etc) or make a dontion. Visit their website for more details on how you can be part of the Birthday club! http://www.coastalpetrescue.org/birthday-club.php

The party was a great sucess, lots of pink food ( meatballs in a tomato sauce, local shrimp, pasta with sun dried tomatoes AND Sue’s incredible cupcakes! Strawberry with cream cheese frosting! From that fabulous cook book we talked a few blogs ago… Screened Doors and Sweet Tea. We all wore pink and had a chance just to celebrate and enjoy our friendship and community.

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Sea Turtle Week Day 2 :Squirty the Loggerhead Sea Turtle releashing

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Here’s something I bet most people on Tybee- Locals and visitors -had no idea. I know when I found out, my mouth literally dropped open.

The Burton 4-H Center on Tybee Island has been raising an endangered loggerhead sea turtle for 1 1/2 years at the 4-H camp. Squirty has born on Jekyll Island and the Georgia DNR ( Department of Natural Resources) brought him to the camp to raise ( and help educate the thousands of school kids who come to the camp) until he was big enough to be released in the wild. The small picture is how big he was his first day in his specially built 1,000 gallon tank and the larger picture of him just a few months ago.

Well Squirty is ready to be released out to sea. The big event will happen Thursday August 7th @ 1:30PM near the Tybee Pier. Come out and help say good bye and good luck to Squirty and for more details go to http://www.burton4h.org/ and click on “our animals”.

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Sea Turtle Week ! Day 1 ! Our first Sea Turtle nest has hatched and another nest!

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Did you know our Sea Turtle Project has a group of incredibly loyal volunteers who nest sit to make sure the babies hatch sucessfully and make it to ocean ? The first nest hatched last Monday night around 9:20PM and our dedicated nest sitters were there to help! This was day 50 of the eggs being laid (eggs usually start to hatch after 60 days of being laid). They spend the nights waiting and protecting the nest and once they start to hatch and then are there to be of help. This nest had 81 babies, 30 of which were undeveloped.

Here are the instructions shared to help the volunteers with the babies. “The red filtered lights will be used for nest monitoring. However, once the hatchlings are out and are disoriented, switch to regular white light. It is impossible to look for hatchlings in the dunes with a red light. Someone will need to stand at the water with one flashlight. Only use white light if the turtles are going away from the water. Give them a couple of minutes to get adjusted to the beach. Buckets may be used to gather the lost hatchlings, but they will need to released close to the water so they can make the crawl themselves. Nest 2 sitting will start on Aug. 9th!”

Thank you Tammy and Cheryl and the volunteers for all you do!

We also had nest 6 laid this weekend! It was originally laid at 6th street in front of the embankment just above the high tide line, so it had to be relocated. The nest has been relocated south of the 8th Street crossover. This nest will hatch in about 60 days.
Here is a great youtube video of a sea turtle baby hatching. Quite the struggle!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2guUpDYRug

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