The indexwildlifedatable to the day
Permitted sea-turtle walks
Fires when booking gate — reserve in May; permitted programs only, red light only
Photograph Edwin Wilke · CC0
June through July. The notch is October.
- Where
- Archie Carr NWR, Melbourne Beach
- Drive
- 110 minutes from Lakeland
- In season
- June through July
- Certainty
- datable to the day
- Drone
- no
Flying here
National Wildlife Refuges: Launching, landing or operating from refuge land is prohibited without a special use permit. Overflight is again an FAA matter rather than the refuge's, but disturbing wildlife is separately unlawful and a drone over a roost or a colony is disturbance regardless of altitude. Treat this as a no unless you have the permit.
From the field
The rules are the picture's price. Never an unpermitted night beach shoot.