Sea turtles must leave the water and crawl up onto the beach to lay their eggs. When a sea turtle nests, she digs a hole deep in the sand, lays her eggs in the hole, then covers the eggs with sand to hide them from predators. After nesting she returns to the sea, leaving tracks as she crawls across the beach. She never comes back to check on the eggs or hatchlings. The Kemp's ridley, the sea turtle found nesting most often in Texas, nests anytime between April and August.