*swoon* I love, love, love turtles with a passion! I grew up in Southern Missouri and the one thing I miss up here more than ANYTHING is all the turtles that were down there. There were 3 different kinds of box turtles and many, many water turtles, and we even had the rare and endangered alligator snapping turtles. I never saw one in the wild that I know of but they had one in a huge aquarium at the Nature Center there.

I just can't get enough of seeing them and watching them. I hope to perhaps have a pet turtle at some point once I'm able to set up a proper home for one. Thanks so much for sharing these!