Saturday, May 26, 2007

Snapping Turtle

Thursday Jared ran home with his hands all bandged up saying he was bit by gigantic snapping turtle. I didn't believe him at first until he took my camera and took lots of pictures.



See for yourself





It was bigger than Jared, the size of a dog. I guess we are lucky it didn't eat Jared.

There is a park one street over from our house named Willow Creek Park, it is a huge park of several acres. I had no idea something this large would be in those creeks, but I guess I was wrong.

3 comments:

Jess and Jen said...

That looks a little scary. I think that would have scarred Abby for life had she seen something like that.

Papa Doc said...

Holy Cow! I've never seen such a huge turtle! Is Jared ok? Did he get bites and/or just scratches? This looks like a pre-historic reptile!

Michelle said...

Jared is okay, he just bled a little. The turtle did break skin, but the area doesn't look infected so he is fine. It does look prehistoric. I wonder how old it is?