This is the same turtle making her way to her nesting spot after the boys were taking away. The grass blades are in her face, but I wasn't going to put my hand so close to her snapping jaws.

We live in an area specifying to watch out for turtle from May to September, and having a large pond behind our property gives us an opportunity to watch them up close.

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Near Park Hotel Miraflores

biggest turtle I've ever seen in the wild

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This little guy was just too cool not to snap a picture of him.

Box turtle I rescued from a busy roadway

while this one was waiting 5 meters away

Nothing's Better Than A Good Stretch...

Green Cay Wetlands, Boynton Beach, FL

Changed the title after tv writer suggested it looks more like yoga than aerobics. I was thinking of the streching exercises, which I vaguely remember from my aerobics classes, never been to a yoga class... shame on me. Anyway, I do agree the title is better and in fact I kept changing it from "aerobics" to "yoga" back to "aerobics" before making the shot public... :-)

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Turtle, Isabela, Galapagos Islands

aren't they awesome??

green turtle at a reef in the st johns area of the red sea, southern egypt.

M is his name.

Turtle,Turtles are reptiles of the order Chelonii or Testudines characterised by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield. Turtle may refer to the chelonian order as a whole (American English) or to fresh-water and sea-dwelling chelonians

the best animal to ever exist ever

Just off Catseye Beach, they are apparently drawn there due to all the tasty algae which grows in that particular bay.

Hamilton Island 2014

Blackwater NWR, Cambridge, Md

6- 6- 2010

& sunny spring day

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A turtle that I found on 28, and rehomed to a park

Taken in a park in San Francisco.

Wampus Brook Park, Armonk, NY -- June 28, 2009

Common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) - Waukesha County, Wisconsin, USA

This snapper wasn't as large as the one in the previous photo but it was still quite big and impressive. I posted a shot of this one earlier but here I tried to get a different angle with the sun at my back. This proved challenging as there was a fair bit of reeds and cattails in the way but I found a small natural window through the vegetation that allowed me a clear view and framed the snapper nicely.

Large snapper turtle on river trail in Portland, MI

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Turtles basking in the sun at the edge of The Lake in Central Park.

I would like to share this shot and the short story behind it. Meet Mr. Turtle...this shot was taken yesterday about 10 minutes after I received a call from my fiance who was on her way home from work.

She excitedly told me that she needed me to come outside with my camera because she had saved a turtle who was starting to cross a major highway and was now in the backseat of her car. The funny thing is that she has always wanted to help a turtle in need so she was super excited that the opportunity arose.

We took him over to the lake next to where we live to let him go in a natural habitat. He was not a happy camper at getting out of the car but boy was he psyched when he saw that water!

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