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Okay so its not my best shot ever but isn't he the most wonderful creature! I found him when I was on holidays! I almost missed him my dad was showing me a group of butterflys and just as I was about to shoot them I noticed this wonderful Tortoise! Hope you guys like him

 

Es Grau national park,Menorca,Spain

 

Tortoises in St. Barths

in my back yard. Here are many other photos of gopher tortoises -- mostly taken in my yard.

 

First time I've shot one with my Nikon D80 - used 18mm-200mm lens.

 

It's one month until my Big 6-0 birthday.

Athena, Greece.

A type of small tortoise, roaming around a petting zoo in Flordia.

Free range giant tortoise in the highlands of Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Archipelago

A visitor to our patio this morning.

Tortoise brooch.

Bronze, gilded, iron, white metal and textiles.

Tortoise brooches were used to hold up a woollen overdress and to fasten strings of beads across the chest of the wearer.

Grave find, Björkö, Adelsö, Uppland, Sweden.

SHM 34000:Bj 1081

See also kulturarvsdata.se/shm/object/html/363878

Tortoise Table/Indoor enclosure. Pine plywood corner unit tortoise table. Three section piece, with the ramp and no rails.

Tortoise Table/Indoor enclosure. Pine plywood corner unit tortoise table. Three section table. Table with the rails installed.

In front garden of a house in Medjugorje

Tortoise Table/Indoor enclosure. Pine plywood corner unit tortoise table. Three section table. Table with rails, water proofed flooring, rock background, floating shelves, enclosed lights (Zoo-M ed PowerSun 100watt), two sleeping zones, two story flooring and lids for cleaning accessibility. Bed-A-Beast w/organic topsoil mixture substrate, and viewing windows. Top corner view.

seen along the Pine Ridge Preserve Trail at Bok Tower Gardens, Lake Wales, Florida.

A tortoise appeared at our gate today. The staff here have never seen this before.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise

The victorious tortoise leaves the toppled tortoise in the dust! He's got something on his mind...and it isn't helping his opponent off the mat.

 

Tortoise in my garden

African spurred tortoise (Sporenschildpad/Centrochelys sulcata/Sulcata tortoise), seen in the Turtle shelter (Schildpaddencentrum), Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, 8 August 2015. This is a centre where people can bring turtles and tortoises that can no longer be cared for.

Photo taken in Ankarafantsika national park, Madagascar.

aka the "State Tortoise of Florida", chowing down.

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Fall Break 2015: "South Florida Immersion"

 

October 26th: Sanibel Island

Our tortoise, Gamera

Not always easy to photo tortoise as their colour is not very attractiveor vibrant.

'When we were little,' the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, `we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--'

 

`Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked.

 

`We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle angrily: `really you are very dull!'

 

Texture by Skeletalmess

Berlin zoo. November 2011, Berlin, Germany. Nikon D3000

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