Fun Day
Ξ June 3rd, 2005 | → 1 Comments | ∇ Family |
So we’re out of milk, so I run to the store to get more.
On the way is Staples, and I dumpster dive there regularly to see if they’ve tossed anything nifty.
As I’m driving away, I see a big dirt lump. As I pass it, my brain is still processing the image. Then I realize how much the lump looks like a turtle.
Hit the reverse, and sure enough, looks a lot like a turtle! On closer inspection, it’s a huge freaking snapping turtle!
It’s about a mile from the river, so it must have crawled all that way. It had dug into the dirt trying to cover itself up. It’s really dehydrated, and had some leeches on it (which I pulled off).
The kids, wife and I set him back in the river.
It’s been a fun day all around for the family. Started off with releasing the turtle after a nice breakfast, then we went for a little drive. Earlier in the week we’d tried geocaching, but couldn’t find it. So I checked the site out again for some clues to where it was. We had to do some hiking in the woods, but we found it!
It’s too bad…we got really close when my wife spilled the beans: she’d left the keys in the car, and her purse on the front seat! I was like “you always lock the car when you walk twenty feet from it, why didn’t you do that now?” She was like “well, I didn’t think we were walking that far!”
She walked back, I took the boys the rest of the way (which turned out to be a whopping 100 feet away!).
I’m posting some pictures in the gallery. Check them out!
