I have a lot of turtle stories, and some others, many of these happened before I owned a camera or didn't have one around.
I was walking along a lake and saw a female turtle laying her eggs in the sand. She allowed me to watch for a little bit before I got yelled at by my dad to let her be.
Another turtle encounter happened when I was wondering in a creek and caught a red-eared slider and a soft-shelled snapping turtle, both of which I brought home and kept for a little bit before taking them back to the creek and letting them go. I found ether momma or daddy for the snapper right before the ledge I let them go at.
After a massive storm, I went out to look at flood damage and found a box turtle walking across the road. I took it off the road and put it over a fence to prevent it from getting run over.
I seem to have a lot of turtle encounters, this one I have a picture of and will post when I can dig it off my external Hard-drive. I found a snapper like turtle, he was laying around where fireworks were going to be set up. I managed to pick the big guy up and put him in the local "water trap" without getting bit.
---Yes a lot of turtle stories. I seem to have them drawn to me.
I used to catch small little blackish-brown frogs from the drainage area and set up a large home for them in my stock tank. I havn't been able to do this for a while now, I did this when I was little and my mom has taken the tank and turned it into a raccoon home. I see them running under it from time to time.
This last one was my first encounter with a wild snake, I watched Croc Hunter a whole lot, and not my smartest. I was at a picnic and walking by the river and saw a black snake slithering along. So, without thinking, I took off after it so I could catch it and bring it home as a pet. It wasn't till I grew up and started learning more about snakes, that I found this snake was a cotton-mouth. Needless to say I never made that mistake again.
