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Ever try to get a turtle to stick their head out of their shell so you can get a cute picture? I found this guy in the middle of a very BACK, back road, taking my poor dog Jerica swimming in the West River so she could cool off in yesterday's afternoon 93F heat. It truly proved to be "serendipity" seeing him, because I found a beaver pond, with not one, but TWO wonderful beavers swimming round and round like they were otters in a zoo. Thanks to this turtle, I found a VERY secret place teeming with critters and birds. I would NEVER have even looked here, much less stopped, unless he had been in my path. I am truly having a very glorious "picture-taking" Spring!!!
(Beaver photos a bit later -- they were way over-exposed since I was facing into the sun, so I'm trying to pick the best ones out of a hundred or so.)
Sealife Centre Turtle - seems curious as to what I am doing and smiling for the camera!
Scarborough Sealife Centre
July 2012
June evening at Lake Maria State Park, MN. See a painted turtle in the grass and get out to get a few photos and expect it to run off like most painted turtles do, but it didn't. It was digging in the ground a hole and thought it was strange and then the first egg popped into the hole and watched her drop 8 eggs into the hole and then covered the hole and walked back to the lake.
Common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina ) @Wesselman Woods Nature Center, Evansville IN 2:30PM CDT 9/22/2013
Some friends are visiting and they wanted to see turtles, so we went and found some turtles @ 4 mile. This one was particularly mellow and we got to hang out for a while.
Matilda is glad they put this turtle statue here. She really doesn't get many chances to practice her turtle CPR skills.
I am a bit close on this photo because my main goal and that of another driver was to hustle this huge snapper off the 100 kph highway with oncoming cars in the distance. A picture of the full turtle hunkering down will be posted later.
Once the turtle finally reached the roadside grass and then the reeds, it moved quite quickly, and it was tank or bulldozer-like as it plowed through the dry reeds to get to the water. Figuratively and literally, it has a large "footprint."
It was very fun to see and interact with this colossus.
The last time I saw one of these big prehistoric-looking relics was as a young boy with my father along a river bank, a lasting memory and a big day for this kid.
June evening at Lake Maria State Park, MN. See a painted turtle in the grass and get out to get a few photos and expect it to run off like most painted turtles do, but it didn't. It was digging in the ground a hole and thought it was strange and then the first egg popped into the hole and watched her drop 8 eggs into the hole and then covered the hole and walked back to the lake.
We swam with this turtle at a dive site called Gordon's Flynn, in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns, Australia. Photo taken by one of our fellow divers, Donald Cantlon.
This photo was modified from its original state through the use of the Orton Effect. This effect through use of blurring and exposure settings creates a dreamlike photo.
Caught sight of this Eastern Box Turtle grazing in a grass patch above our driveway Sunday. First one I had seen around here. When I finally brought the mower around to where he had been, he was gone. Hope he looked twice before crossing our street.
When you look at him enlarged on black background, appears he might have forgotten to wash his face before he left the house that morning.