Play equipment, chairs and other equipment left on the beach over night become deadly entrapments for newly hatched sea turtles.

These hatchling's disoriented to a light
source near this stuff, from their nest about 1000 ft. away

Photos courtesy of Bruce Drye

The turtle had to go past these things to a nest site at the edge of dunes.  B Drye

The turtle ran into these chairs after nesting.   B Drye

The turtle nested right in front of these chairs and while she was covering the nest and moving forward,

the chairs and umbrella fell over on her.  B Drye

The following pictures show a very rare daylight sea turtle nesting   B Drye

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