On my way bicycling (for the first time in several weeks) to work yesterday, I saw a big snapping turtle in the parking lot by the canoe launch area in Nahanton Park. It wasn’t really remarkably big for a snapping turtle, maybe with a shell the size of a dinner plate, but even that’s much too big to want to mess with. I got a couple of good pictures with my iPhone:
Look at these legs, when it decided to get up and move off! I didn’t realize those things could stand up so high off the ground. That’s more what I expect from a land tortoise.
