underwater, marine creatures, fish.turtle taken from below with clouds of fish in blue water in background. Indian ocean.?Geoff Spiby/ Cape Photo Library

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native turtle sunning in rincon creek

A large male Painted turtle.

Taken while at the Sea Turtle rescue facility on So. Padre Island

Turtles at Makena Beach/Makena Landing in Maui.

Photo credits primarily Allen Tabisola, secondarily Eric Williams and Renee Dimond

Oh, go awaaaay

Houston Arboretum

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Wildlife Park, Northwest PA, Turtles

Turtle, Botanical Garden, Bucharest. More on my blog: www.tertulia.ro/blog

Turtle in pond at the Flamingo, Las Vegas

We swim with the turtle

Wasserschildkröte im Allwetterzoo Münster

turtle

Location Undisclosed

Thanks, Larry Meade for the identification -- I've looked it up -- seems right.... but I'm no expert with turtles, (knowing what a Box Turtle is about the most I know!), so I'll call it a "Painted Turtle", but if anyone else has other identification ideas -- they are welcome.

This turtle was stranded at low tide. We poured some water on its shell and body to stop it from drying out, but it was way too heavy for us to move.

According to others who came after us, the turtle's front-right flipper (not shown) was injured. Poor thing.

There were a lot of turtles in El Salvador

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freaky

I didn't have anything to show the scale, but this turtle must be at least three feet long. It looks like a freaking dinosaur.

A head shot close up of a nice little turtle.

Just a bit of a shame the colour is as washed out.

Moalboal, Philippines, March 2008

Digital Camera

Off like a herd of turtles at Makena Landing, Maui

turtle

"Hey Pal, hope you're not using a flash??"

kinda hard to get this pic. Holding turd, knees bend towards lamp, holding camera still on broken & shaky tripod

Awesome sea creatures-best part of my trip. Seeing the sea turtles so close

North Shore Hawaii