May 24th is World Turtle Day.
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May 24th is World Turtle Day.
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The trouble I have with campfires are the folks that carry a bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other.
You never know which one is talking.
Once again, tortoises get forgotten, cast aside for their fancy-pants cousins, the turtles.
"Waning Gibbous" would be a great trail name.
Not at all...World Turtle Day was started by American Tortoise Rescue.
https://www.facebook.com/WorldTurtleDay?fref=ts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3326107.html
The trouble I have with campfires are the folks that carry a bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other.
You never know which one is talking.
Think I'll cook up a pot of turtle stew for the occasion.
Getting lost is a way to find yourself.
"It's fun to have fun, but you have to know how." ---Dr. Seuss
Ha! Just witnessed my duck slurp up a baby turtle. Happy turtle day
Here is wishing you the very best Turtle Day, Winged Monkey!
I recall that you raise some real beauties-- it's hard to forget your turtle porn.
It was a mild winter and they hardly stopped mating over what was supposed to be winter. I've already got at least 20 eggs incubating over the last few weeks.
Did you know that the female box turtle can store the male's "deposit" and save it for laying fertile eggs, sometimes for up to four years?
The trouble I have with campfires are the folks that carry a bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other.
You never know which one is talking.
Aww.. WingedMonkey.. that's cool info about Turtle Day! I looked for turtles, on our hike, but didn't see any.
Happy Turtle day!
Coincidently this is one one of my favorite hiking songs.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
113.jpg Try along the C&O Canal in MD near Harper's Ferry..there are loads of them
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"Maybe life isn't about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it's about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it."
Love the turtle song elf
NOBO section hiker, 1066.4 miles... & counting!!
Not to hijack the thread, but it's also a huge Buddhist holiday as the full moon of this month is when Buddha supposedly: 1/ was born, 2/ became enlightened, 3 died. ALL on the full moon of this month. (which is the 24th this month, or today!)
Called Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams
This one's eyes were telling me "You Shall Not PASS!" yesterday on the trail (So. Illinois), but I made it around. Maybe telling him/her Happy World Turtle Day would have made him/her less grumpy.
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That's a beautiful shell for a wild Eastern Box Turtle, (Terrapene Carolina Carolina). Usually they have scars or nicks from attempted attacks of forest fires.
It's most likely a male. Male Eastern usually (not always) have orange or red eyes and the females have brown eyes. My Florida Box Turtle subspecies (Terrapene carolina bauri) don't, they all have brown eyes.
You can also tell a male by the conclave on his bottom shell (plastron), where a female is completely flat. It's for the male riding on top of the female.
The trouble I have with campfires are the folks that carry a bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other.
You never know which one is talking.
Thanks for the extra info! I found the bit about the eyes after I posted the photo, but it's nice to have that confirmed by an expert!
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Here's the only other pic I took of him.
Here is the plastron of two young males, you can see the slight conclave to the shell, it gets more pronounced with age. Male 3-A plastron.JPGMale 8-C plastron.JPG Here are the bottom shells of two females of the same age. Female 4-C plastron.JPGFemale 6-D plastron.JPG
The trouble I have with campfires are the folks that carry a bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other.
You never know which one is talking.
"Hiking is as close to God as you can get without going to Church." - BobbyJo Sargent aka milkman Sometimes it's nice to take a long walk in THE FOG.