Friday, April 29, 2011

A guy walks down the beach....


And finds a turtle? I was just finishing a jog and saw this guy, just sitting there, near the water's edge. I think he wandered down from Old Creek, I'm not sure, but I decided to take him home and ask our neighbor, Richard. He works at a wildlife rescue place in Morro Bay.

I've done a bit of research online and I think it's a variety of mud turtle. They live in marshy areas. Right where Old Creek comes onto the beach, there is a marshy area - so I'm thinking that's where he came from.

He started out very quiet & calm...but he's quite active now. He crawled out of the box he was in, so now he's in Kasey's old crate!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Keep us posted about him! Great idea to use the crate! What's his approximate size relative to something?

David B said...

See the latest post to find out what's up with the turtle. As for size - he was only about 6 inches long, a very nice sized turtle. I was amazed how long his neck was when he really stretched it. I don't know where he found room in his shell for it!

Paul Bains said...

You did the right thing, turtles are cool :)