Harbor Island lies in the marsh between the Harbor River and Johnson's Creek out from Frogmore and before Hunting Island and Fripp. We have rented a house on this island for the past three years.
It is a bird scanctuary and on the beach, the turtles come in May and June to dig holes to deposit their eggs. Today if you walk from the Harbor River end past the houses and the condos to the far end of the island, you can see nine false turtle crawls. This is because there is a rack of wattles that has been pushed ashore by storms during the winter and fall and many of the turtles will turn back to the ocean rather than crawl over them to dig a nest. I have talked to the turtle volunteers and they tell me that some turtles have been brave enough to crawl over the rack and lay their eggs and one nest is due any day to release the turtle babies into the sea. Some nests have been predated by foxes and raccoons and if they are, the volunteers move the remaining eggs to another location.
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