Strange interloper while MDing the beach today.
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Kraemer
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Funny he doesn’t look POed or that big!
GLASSHOPPER1955
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He was both. I guess he wanted all that "bling" I found (yeah right).
GKL
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…...or maybe there was some of their eggs in the sand close by ? 
…...if so it could have been a protective mama coming to scare you away !
…...if so it could have been a protective mama coming to scare you away !
amc rulz
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Oh man now I’ve got a big craving for Cajun turtle soup. And make it snappy!
ROBOTCOP13
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That's a puppy.
On the Florida Treasure coast we get the green turtles and loggerheads and leather backs.
Look like VWs crawling on the beach.
On the Florida Treasure coast we get the green turtles and loggerheads and leather backs.
Look like VWs crawling on the beach.
georgeinsc
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Looks like you were at a fresh water beach as I have never seen a snapping turtle at a salt water beach. We get those big boy on our local beaches. They have been laying eggs more this year than ever. One 800 acre island up the coast a ways has over 1900 active nests this year and more showing up every day
Foragist
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Snapper! When they are acting angry, I hear you are supposed to tap them on the nose with your finger to calm them down. I always hear the stories of people poking them with a stick, and they bite the end of the stick off. They hate that. Do it with your finger. They like that. 
Beachhunter
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He’s ticked because the rabbit didn’t show!
dirt dick
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did you show him the way to the nude beach ?
GLASSHOPPER1955
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Next time lay a dime next to it for size reference.
He probably would have eaten a dime, judging by how he bit my coil.
Yeah, Lake Michigan.
We just don't usually see turtles here, just outside the beach is downtown.
I did once have a herd of deer running down the beach towards me along the water's edge.
Usually only have to worry about those 2-legged 'animals" around here.
amc rulz
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If he’s a foot wide, he’s fair game. You can have your Hot pockets, McNuggets, Whopper, Big Mac or McRibs. I want turtle!
petejc
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Question ...If a turtle is out of his shell, is he homeless or naked.??
amc rulz
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Neither. He’s dinner!Question ...If a turtle is out of his shell, is he homeless or naked.??
RichieSoprano
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Senn huge snappers on salt estuaries on the Jersey Shore, but mostly tidal creeks where fresh would meet the salt. VERY aggressive. And faster than you'd think.
T-Man
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Found this guy in the backyard cutting the grass about a month ago, took him in to show the kids, Thought he had a pretty cool pattern to him. Sorry pic not so good, wife got mad for me taking a turtle in the house so I had to hurry wasn't huge, maybe 8-10 inches across the shell.
wasn't huge, maybe 8-10 inches across the shell.Attachments
georgeinsc
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Back in the early 50's one of those got hold of my leg just below the knee. Guy twisted that rascal till he let go. Yes it hurt. We got our revenge. We ate him.
amc rulz
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That’s an Eastern box turtle. No eat!
