Beautiful Cumberland Island

 

I am so lucky to be a researcher on Cumberland Island! I spend my days on Cumberland searching for terrapins and any nests I can find. When I am searching for turtles, I often get to see a lot of wonderful other thing. I get to see a lot of native plants and wen they are in bloom the marsh banks are littered with specks of color. On my nesting beach I noticed a killdeer sitting on a nest and snapped a picture when she took off to eat. While searching for sharks teeth on my time off I can across my first velvet ant, I was so excited to see one! I was diving to one of my crab pot areas, and what was in the middle of the road?! A gopher tortoise I was off my rocker when I saw this sub adult male. Even on days when I don't see any terrapins, I look around the island and know how lucky I am to spend my days in beautiful Cumberland Island.