Turtles!
What's your relationship with turtles? Do you ever think about turtles? Do other people ever make you stop and think about turtles? What do you think about turtles? Why am I thinking about turtles when I should be planning a ski trip or a trip somewhere warm with a beach?! It's time to get this thing with turtles off my mind and into a post so I can move on to other things! So here it is, my thing with turtles! 50 Baby Snapping Turtles: Adirondack Turtle Tails . . . On a rainy day last September, our group of seven kayakers were headed to Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks , New York , to paddle on a day I thought it would be much more fun to visit the Adirondack Museum ! On a steep sandy embankment along the road next to a creek, there was a gathering of about 15 people hovering around the same spot. I thought there had been an accident. Was it a roadside vigil? But, the people were all smiling. Someone called out: "Baby snapping turtles are be...