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Explore - 08-05-08
This guy is huge! The tree beside him is at least 12 inches thick.. Hard to get his size into perspective but that is a 24 inch tray of food he's munching on.. Taken at the Zoo in Melbourne, Fl..
Found this Painted Turtle after sunset. Living in Montana for 43 years, I've never run across one in the egg-laying process, but that's what she was either, A.) about to do, or, B.) had already done. The light was very poor and I didn't want to bother her, (though I have to say, she didn't move a muscle while I was there. I've heard that they may go into a kind of trance while they're doing this, and she sure seemed to be under some kind of spell.) I took a few shots, wished her and her offspring well, and left. Make the photo big and look at the muddy hole she'd prepared for the eggs. Her posterior hovers over it. It was far from roads and people and on land protected by the Ninepipe preserve, so I think her babies will have as fair a chance as they could have anywhere. Water wasn't too far off .. maybe 100 yards.
Resting in the sun after having laid her 100 plus eggs. Onlookers all respecting her efforts and keeping several metres away.
This handsome turtle was chilling out on the road. I'm glad I got a shot of him out of his shell before moving him, because he refused to come back out afterward! I waited patiently for 45 minutes and he didn't budge, so I put him in some shady bushes in the direction he was headed.
Suffolk County, NY
This guy was just hanging out on the trail. He seemed content to peek at me like that and never went all the way into his shell. After I left, he wandered off into the trees, presumably to do turtle things.
This turtle didn't have a left eye. If you look closely, there's also a chunk of it's shell that's missing behind the left side of it's head.
Tunnels Beach. Another view of the turtle; he/she is very comfortable with people; swam right next to me
Turtle shell found on the beach in Seychelles amongst the brocken coral on the Sandy Beach with with Orange Sunset in the background
Captain Don of the Seafire has a great stop to visit the turles on his Molokini tour. As I post turtles, you will see the colors change... it all depends on the light and the depth I guess. For this reason I don't think I'll post them all at once :)
Have a great weekend!!
Kihei, Maui, Hawaii
May 2012