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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
Sea Turtle / Meeresschildkröte
Riviera Maya / Akumal Bay / Quintana Roo / Mexico
Photographed with a Canon PowerShot A 710 IS in Waterproof Case WP-DC 6
Freilebende Meeresschildkröten zu sehen , war für mich ein großes Erlebnis - ein großer Traum ging damit in Erfüllung !
To see free-living sea turtles, was a great experience for me - a big dream came true !
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.
Tunnels Beach. Another view of the turtle; he/she is very comfortable with people; swam right next to me
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.
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
Just out of hibernation, these turtles awaken in a pond FULL of goldfish!
Monument Valley Park. Colorado Springs, Colorado.
One of the best moments on my visit to the Potomac was this adorable young Wood Turtle. (since there were no Odes) I was trying to get a picture holding it in one hand, the camera in the other while trying to cast my shadow over the little wiggler. On the ride home I couldn't figure out why my palm was badly scraped? Then I realized it was from the turtles little claws. It made me smile :)
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.