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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..
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
We never get to shoot at Turtles in our region. I was happy to get this one in Invermere, BC.
Just for fun, I added a very close up shot of part of a different species in the comment box below.
If you feel like playing, try to guess what animal that part belongs to. The fact that the main shot is a reptile might be misleading.
I'll post the whole thing in a couple of days.
This was taken last month in Florida. I was walking in a state park near some water and saw movement. At first I was afraid it was a gator! I slowly checked it out and found this busy turtle.
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.
This beautiful Green Sea Turtle was shot in Kona, Hawaii. I had to chase her down for a long time to get this image.
This photo has been selected for the cover of National Geographic Kids May 2010 issue.
Tunnels Beach. Another view of the turtle; he/she is very comfortable with people; swam right next to me
Photo of a cypress pond located in the Jesse H. Jones Park and Nature Center, near Humble Texas. And if you look close you should see a turtle sitting in the sunlight. Can you find it!? Camera is a Canon EOS 80D with a EF-S 18-135mm USF lens, with some image adjustments made post-processing.
Did you know? Eutrophication causes algae bloom. Is a natural process that occurs in an aging lake or pond as that body of water gradually builds up its concentration of plant nutrients.
Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) - Walworth County, Wisconsin, USA
The small lake that these were seen in has one of the largest populations of turtles I have ever seen, walking the perimeter of the lake I must have seen over a 100 painted turtles. I stopped on shore to observe a few turtles and saw some interesting behavior, a 3rd turtle swam up and began stretching its neck out of the water towards the face of one of the basking turtles, it did this for several minutes took a break and then resumed its activity. At several points the basking turtle retracted its head back inside its shell but this did not dissuade the 3rd (persistent) turtle, my view was obstructed by the basking turtles shell but the turtles were so close that their snouts must have been touching or very close to it. I don't know what this behavior was, perhaps the 3rd turtle wanted the other to relinquish its basking spot or maybe some sort of mating behavior. In any case it was interesting to see. You can see the turtle in the water stretching to reach the basking turtle from the water in this shot.
Green turtles are found throughout the world, occurring primarily in tropical, and to a lesser extent, subtropical waters. The Hawaiian green turtle is genetically distinct from the other green sea turtle populations, nesting primarily in the French Frigate Shoals of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and feeding in the coastal areas of the main Hawaiian Islands. This species was in a steep decline as of the 1970s because of direct harvest of both turtles and eggs by humans. The population has grown steadily over the last thirty years after protection began in 1978. Greens are the most common species of sea turtle found in Hawaiian waters.