Another successful book signing

Everyone seemed to be having a grand time at my third book signing July 26 at Treehouse Bistro in Carolina Beach. Nice, noisy crowd. Much laughter and smiles. Sold books, which was great! Made new friends from among Bistro customers who heard about the signing and attended. One, Valeria, I hope to look up on my vacation north in August, who lives in Rochester.

Big thanks to my kayaking friends Arlene and Eileen who arranged the event and to my paddling and turtle friends who shared a lively evening with me.

Georgia

Check out Coastal Gardening

Spent some time at the Carolina Beach marina pulling weeds and plotting where to plant the pansies and violas that'll take us through the fall and winter.

My other blog, Coastal Gardening, is fun to write and quite informative. Basically, I'm experimenting with my own property, transforming a weedy, sandy front yard into beds of drought-tolerant, native plants.

If you have experiences to offer regarding gardening in coastal areas, please share them. You'll find the link under Interesting Links on the right side of this page.

An absolutely text book hatch

It's been just over a month since 95 baby sea turtles made their way into the surf at Carolina Beach from a nest nurtured by Island Women. I wonder how many are still swimming. It's discouraging to know only one in 5,000 turtles makes it to adulthood and returns to nest on the same beach where it hatched decades earlier.

But these babies were strong. They boiled out of the nest about an hour after I and another volunteer got there, saw the depression and began calling volunteers who were supposed to begin sitting the nest that evening, Sept. 11.

What a sight! Those little turtles, about the size of a quarter, got a whiff of sea water, saw the shining red-light lantern leading them to the ocean and off they went! Thrilling! And an experience I'll never forget.