Turtle Tide Art Project
SAVE THE DATE!
2025 Turtle Tide Art Auction (rescheduled!): Friday, December 12
About the Turtle Tide Art Project
Starting in 2022, the Edisto Chamber of Commerce created the Turtle Tide Art Project as a way to benefit local businesses, artists, and non-profit organizations. The Turtle Tide Art Project will help raise funding for a variety of local non-profits. In addition to supporting non-profits, the turtles will offer residents and visitors a glimpse into Edisto’s creative art community, as well as provide informational facts about the loggerhead turtles that call the Island home.
The turtles arrive as blank slates before local artists transform each one into their own unique artistic creations. After the “Reveal” event in May/June, the turtles then take up residence in Edisto over Turtle Season (May-October). During Edisto’s Fall Fest in October, they will be put up for auction to find their “forever home”. Proceeds from the auction will go to the designated non-profits associated with each turtle.
2025’s turtle proceeds will go to support the following organizations:
Read more about our local non-profits that are doing great work within the community here!
How do they find their forever home?
A Turtle Auction (in conjunction with our Fall Festival) is held in October where all 10 turtles will be auctioned off! All of the money raised for each turtle will be donated to their designated non-profit. Join the fun and you might even take home your favorite turtle!
2025 Turtle Tide Guide
We have created an interactive Turtle Tide Guide to accompany the project! Once the turtles are in place, the guide will help you discover all ten of the turtles around Edisto, learn more about the project, and why protecting Edisto’s turtles is so important. You will be able to click on each turtle to open their locations on Google Maps or download your very own copy for reference.
You can find physical copies of the guides at the Edisto Chamber of Commerce or at each sponsor location for the turtles.
Here are the 2025 Works of Art!
If you find all 10 and take a picture with each one, tagging it #EdistoTurtleTide, you will be entered to win a prize! You can also email your photos to chamber@edistochamber.com or message us through our Facebook or Instagram pages.
#edistoturtletide
Edisto Photo Dump #2/3
So excited to have both family and new friends who live near our cottage on Edisto. This makes our trips even more special. 🥰
🎄✨ Mark Your Calendars — A Holiday Turtle Celebration! ✨🐢
Due to weather earlier this month, our Turtle Tide Art Auction has been rescheduled — and we’re bringing it into the holiday season!
Join us on Friday, December 12th at Bay Creek Park for a festive day full of shopping, art, community…and our beloved art sculptures!
🛍️ Holiday Mix & Mingle Market
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Shop local vendors and find special gifts just in time for the holidays!
🐢 Turtle Tide Art Auction
3:00 PM
Bid on one-of-a-kind, artist-designed works of art 🐢🐬🦌🐚.
Each turtle supports local nonprofits.
Come for the market, stay for the auction — or make a day of it! 🌴💚
Event Details & Auction Info:
🔗link in bio
Let’s celebrate community, creativity, and the spirit of the season — Edisto style.
#EdistoBeach #EdistoTurtleTide #HolidayMarket #SupportLocal #EdistoEvents 🎄🐢✨
Launched by the Edisto Chamber of Commerce in 2022, the Turtle Tide Art Project brings together local artists, businesses, and non-profits.
Each spring, blank turtle sculptures arrive on the island and are transformed into beautiful works of art that celebrate Edisto’s creative spirit and its connection to the sea turtles that call our shores home.
After spending the summer on display, the turtles are auctioned at Edisto’s Fall Fest, with proceeds supporting local non-profit organizations. A true celebration of art, community, and conservation.
While this years auction was postponed due to weather we eagerly anticipate its reschedule date.
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Always enjoy seeing the turtle tide projects! ❤️💚🐢🏝️Missing Captain Kirk as he was at Doctor. The oyster dolphin and deer this year were beautiful too! #edistoturtletide
Have you visited all of the Turtle Tide sculptures yet?
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There’s nothing better than time at the beach spent with family ☀️🏝️🐚🦈 #edisto #edistoturtletide
One of my favorite part of my Edisto trip is completing the #EdistoTurtleTide! The first 10 pictures are this year’s sculptures, then after are old one just for fun!! I am even wearing the shirt my friends over at edistochamber sent me from last year’s challenge!!
Had a blast Exploring Edisto with the Turtle Tide Guide! The turtles, Deer, Oyster & Dolphin this year are beautiful! 🐢🦌 🦪 🐬
1. Meribel Blue
2. St. Pierre
3. Miss Edie
4. Jack
5. Shelly
6. Zora
7. Frogmore
8. Dawhoo’s Edisto Journey
9. Captain Kirk
10. Aurora
Who wants to buy one of these and put it out at The Peach Stand? 😂 Maybe next year there will be a Peach Turtle 🍑
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Headed to Edisto to do a little turtle crawl 🐢 #edistoturtletide
This Year’s 2025 Edisto Island Turtle Hunt. My Favorite Turtle This Year Was FROGMORE. I Also Loved DAWGOO’s EDISTO JOURNEY. Thank You edistochamber. #EdistoTurtleTide
Another summer of capturing all the pretty turtles on Edisto Island for the #edistoturtletide , the artist always do such great work. It`s becoming a fun summertime activity that I look forward to doing every year with dosattack47
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Edisto Photo Dump #1. Summer has officially arrived and we are here for it!
2025 Turtle Tide search
#Edisto2025 #EdistoTurtleTide #2025vacay #rainydayvibes
Edisto Photo Dump 3/3: Forever thankful for the many memories we have been able to make at Edisto Beach over the last decade, and the many more we will continue to make at fireflycottageedisto
The epitome of Edisto. #fireflycottageedisto
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#SouthCarolinaBeaches
#LowcountryLiving
#BeachLifeSC
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#EdistoEscape
#CoastalCarolina
#EdistoBound
#EdistoSunsets
#EdistoDays
#ExploreEdisto
#SaltLife
#EdistoAdventures
#BeachPleaseSC
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#SeasTheDaySC
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#HiddenGemSC
Why Loggerhead Turtles are Important to Edisto Island
Loggerhead turtles have always found a home on Edisto Island, even before humans arrived. From May to October, these remarkable creatures grace us with their presence during turtle season, venturing onto the beach to lay their eggs before journeying back to the ocean. If you’ve ever had the privilege of visiting Edisto Island during this awe-inspiring time, you’re well aware of the deep significance it holds for us. We are wholeheartedly committed to safeguarding these precious loggerhead turtle hatchlings, with a set of dedicated rules in place to ensure their safe emergence from their nests and their successful journey into the welcoming embrace of the ocean.
Fun facts about Loggerhead turtles:
- Female Loggerhead Turtles nest every 2 to 3 years.
- Nesting turtles will lay an average of 3 to 5 clutches in a single season. The average clutch size is 100 eggs!
- Once the nest is laid, the female never visits her nest again.
- Mature turtles weigh between 250 and 400 pounds!
- Only adult females come ashore, males spend their entire life in the ocean.
- Sea turtles cannot retract their heads or flippers as land turtles do.
- Adult Loggerheads are reddish brown above and creamy yellow below.
- Between 50 and 150 nests are found on Edisto each year! We are thankful to have the Edisto Beach Loggerhead Turtle Project and Edisto Beach State Park helping protect these nests and educating the public on the turtles.
- Nesting females are skittish and avoid lighted beaches. One of our rules during turtle season is no flashlights at night on the beach or around the beachfront area. Another reason for our “no lights” rule is that hatching turtles are attracted to the light and will often follow it and go the wrong way!
- Though other species visit, only Loggerheads nest here.
