TURTLE VIDEO!!!!

A few days ago, as I walked around our neighborhood, I was startled by the sound of something entering the water in the pond near our house.  I looked and saw a giant turtle slowly descending into the depths.  "Man, just missed him", I thought.  Little did I know it was a mere foreshadowing of what was to come...

The Volo Bog is only a few miles from our house, but somehow, in all the years we've lived here, I had never gone hiking there.  So today, on a cloudy, chilly day in June, I went.  It was beautiful, lush, green, forest-y, with literally no one else on the trail.  And towards the end of the hike, I was rewarded with.. you guessed it... a giant turtle!  I captured over seven minutes of heart-stopping Glorious Turtle Footage!  Yes, over seven minutes!

Without too much further ado, here is the video.  It's best viewed in a large format, so I won't embed it here, but link to it instead.  Enjoy the turtle.  And the crickets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvzKjfp5XHU

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