SOUTH VALLEY--Bob Evans and I came upon it this morning on the SV bike trail just opposite Mountain View School. It was big...real big...almost the size of a manhole cover. And it was walking/swimming in the arroyo! When stretched out the head and neck were about a foot long. The shell was almost 2 feet from front to back, and the tail stuck out a good 9 inches. That makes this monster almost 4 feet long! The turtle was on its way downstream towards the river. It must have been flushed out of the grassy channel next to the junkyards. We left it in peace...partly because it was too scary to do anything with it.
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