Corolla is the northern-most nesting ground for endangered sea turtles. When we first moved here I volunteered a day per week during the summer to drive the beaches at dawn to look for the tracks of a mother sea turtle crawling onto the beach to play her eggs in a hole she dug in the sand. When I finally came across a set of tracks and we verified that it was a real nest I vowed to document the process. I produced this video and donated a couple thousand DVD copies that the Network for Endangered Sea Turtles (NEST) sold to raise funds.

NEST also has a program to help injured sea turtles, or those cold-stunned in winter to receive medical attention. They have built a wonderful rehabilitation facility at the Manteo aquarium. Many times when the recovered turtles are ready to go back to their natural habitat the coastal waters are too cold for them. In these cases the US Coast Guard lends a hand by taking the turtles to the Gulf Stream for release on one of their regular training missions. As an avid scuba diver I was able to go along on a couple of these voyages and document the releases with the help of other volunteers. I made this short video of those adventures for the Manteo aquarium where it was shown for a year or so to visitors. The last segment of the video are sea turtles in the wild that I shot while on a scuba vacation to the Great Barrier Reef.