Taken along the shore of Wolfe Lake, near Westport, Ontario.

A big turtle

© Jim Gilbert 2010 all rights reserved

Headed up hill in NJ

Snapping Turtle

Kensington Metro Park, MI

Turtle, Courtesy of Papa K

Heosemys spinosa hatching on 9 October 2010. This is the second one of these I have hatched at home. Unfortunately, I did not think the egg was initially viable and failed to write down the date it was laid.

This turtle was crossing the road.

Scuba Diving at Sipadan

I want this on my wall

Snapping Turtle

Snorkelen met zeeschildpadden

We spotted this small turtle resting at the edge of the lake.

You're not a 'real' surfer if you don't sport this kind of bling!

August 2nd-9th I went to Costa Rica to volunteer on a sea turtle conservation project.

Didn't see any real turtles but it was an amazing experience!! We built a trench levy to protect the hatchery from high tide... we did night patrols on 11km of the pacfic coast to protect the eggs from poachers... and we did hatchery watches to protect them from crabs

Did my little part to save an endangered specie =)

look how big this turtle is

turtle on rock

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From my archive colors!

Aquarium.

Canon EOS 10D , Canon EF 24-85 mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

Sun bathing in the Tortuguero National forest.

Alligator Snapping Turtle; Baker Co, GA

Platysternon megacephalum, Tennnessee Aquarium

Galapagos, Ecuador

The Turtle Pond at Central Park, New York.

Found this guy crossing Transit Rd near Lossen at 2PM. Stoped and picked him up before he became a member of the road kill gang. Took him home cleaned him off and after almost loosing a finger turned him loose in Caz creek.

Painted Turtles are the most common and widely distributed of all turtles in the United States. Notice how far forward the eyes are on his little noggin. This helps him to see what going on above the water while exposing as little of his body as possible.

Terrapene carolina carolina

May, 2012. New Jersey.

A beautiful female Eastern Box Turtle crosses a busy rural road in New Jersey. The Garden State is the most densely populated state in the country and in turn many of its roads carry unusually high traffic volume. This coupled with fragmented habitat makes Eastern Box Turtles exceptionally vulnerable to road mortality. The Eastern Box Turtle is listed as a Species of Special Concern in New Jersey.

Spiny Softshell Turtle (female) photographed at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

I noticed this snapping turtle as I was driving into my neighborhood. It looked like she was trying to find a place to lay her eggs, but when I came back later, I didn't see any.

One beautiful variation of an Eastern box turtle taken in Southern NJ.

She was on the edge of a field, so she was probably about to (or just did) lay eggs.

One beautiful variation of an Eastern box turtle taken in Southern NJ.

This little guy stopped by for a visit today.

Laying eggs in the dirt parking lot. In Elm Creek Park Preserve.

(Pseudemys rubriventris) The northern red-bellied turtle or American red-bellied turtle . It is endemic to the United States. The current range of the red-bellied cooter includes a colony in Massachusetts which was previously a separate species (Pseudemys rubriventris bangsii) as well as the coastal areas of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.

Anhinga Trail, Everglades National Park

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Spain 2006