SUN PHOTO BY KIM COOL

A pen shell dwarfs other shells and seaweed washed ashore at Caspersen Beach following Hurricane Isaac.

SUN PHOTO BY KIM COOL

A lone turtle nest at the back of Caspersen Beach may be beneath a palm tree log recently washed ashore.

SUN PHOTO BY KIM COOL
Pen shells and seaweed cover other, smaller shells and stretches of sand far from the water's edge at Caspersen Beach in the aftermath of the passage of Hurricane Isaac on its path toward Louisiana.

SUN PHOTO BY KIM COOL

Three sea turtle nests due to hatch this month are well up on shore yet still buried by far more debris than was there when the mother turtle came ashore in July.