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Sea-turtle hatchling season
Fires when permitted programs; no lights on nesting beaches
Photograph Marlo Perdicas · CC BY
The weekly build has been paused since October 6, 2026. The seasons and dates below still hold. Events are the ones the last finished build found, in the week of 2026-09-13, that have not happened yet — anything announced since is missing, and nothing here reflects this week's weather.
- Where
- Space Coast beaches
- Drive
- 110 minutes from Lakeland
- In season
- July through October
- Certainty
- in season or not
- Drone
- no
How often we have called it on
We have not once called this on, across 7 Sunday builds. That is our own weekly verdict rather than a measurement of the trigger, and a condition that fires midweek can pass between two builds.
From the field
A permitted release is the only lawful way to be on the sand, and no light of any kind may reach it — this is a shoot you book rather than one you find.