OCEAN RIDGE: Bulldozers work in the surf at the north end of Palm Beach County’s Hammock Park as sand is pumped from the dredge through the floating pipe and then to shore, where a sand and water slurry is spread to widen the beach. Photos by Jerry L
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Inside the work of Gumbo Limbo crew
that strives to be biggest ally of these at-risk sea creatures
ABOVE: Gumbo Limbo workers roll a 350-pound female green turtle named Yamato to the ocean at Spanish River Park before a crowd typical of such turtle r
Six South Florida artists will paint murals near Gumbo Limbo Nature Center. These are some proposals they presented to Boca Raton’s Art In Public Places advisory board. ABOVE: Craig McInnis of West Palm Beach. BELOW LEFT: Peter Agardy of Boca Raton.
Tuana Yazici (right), a Saint Andrew’s Upper School student, made a presentation to more than 50 kindergartners at Saint Andrew’s. She spoke about protecting sea turtles from plastic waste and explained how sea turtles are at great risk of being harm
Joan Lorne checks a loggerhead nest the morning after the eggs hatched and finds a couple of stragglers, who are set free.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Venture down to Delray Beach not long after sunrise, and you can’t miss her.
