Category Archives: Nature

Cap’n Crunch

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On Saturday we saw this big honk’n thing at the Beavertail Aquarium, which seems strange since Snapping Turtles, to my knowledge, aren’t keen on salt water. Regardless, it was an impressive site. I don’t think the photo conveys just how big this thing was. And to think that Snappy (scroll down to a post from last week) could get this big. The museum staff was collecting proposed names for this monstrosity, and Cap’n Crunch made the list. In hindsight, I should have added Gamera to the list.

The kids named him “Snappy,” of course.

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Dad! Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad! We caught a baby snapping turtle!!
Yup. They sure did. Cute little fella. And so we brought Snappy back from the pond and let him go across the street from our house, in a little drainage pond. I don’t think he’ll come across any hungry bass living in his swampy new home. Sleep well, Snappy.

Not-so "Itsy Bitsy Spider"

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Saving supper for later in a spider’s version of Tupperware. The fly in there was caught and wrapped up in all of 20 seconds. I couldn’t get a good focus until this point in the action, but the kids and I were witness to the whole “disturbing” thing. Click here for more spider photos.