Little St. Simons Island

Natural History, May, 2002

Just off the Georgia coast, Little St. Simons Island (888-733-5774; www.littlestsimonsisland.com) is halfway between Savannah, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida. Leave your car behind and be prepared to fall under St. Simon's spell.

Late May marks a very special time on the island--the start of the nesting season for loggerhead sea turtles. From the end of May to mid-July, naturalists from the Loggerhead Sea Turtle Monitoring and Protection Program lead guests on Sea Turtle Night Hikes to view adult loggerheads emerge from the ocean and deposit their eggs on the beach.

Return to the island from mid-July through the end of September to watch the hatchlings as they make their way to the sea.

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