Monster from the black lagoon

[rutt]

Actually from Long Pond. Sunday afternoon I was exploring the western end of the island and visiting a couple of Osprey nests:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/6542397-L.jpg

Trying to see if there was a Nantucket reflection:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/6542871-L.jpg

(There wasn't.) When I came upon a boy and his dad who had netted a huge snapping turtle and pulled it up onto the little bridge:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/6543018-L.jpg

What a photo opportunity. I immediately switched to macro mode and started to shoot:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/6543268-L.jpg

Suffice to say, this guy was mad. He hissed like a cat and chased us around the bridge:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/6543053-L.jpg

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/6543385-L.jpg

I think you could use him to cut conduit. Anyway, the story has a happy ending for the turtle, who got thrown back. (That net is a good tool.)

[damonff]

The third one works...I just like people in my shots. Good work (play?)Actually from Long Pond. Sunday afternoon I was exploring the western end of the island and visiting a couple of Osprey nests:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/6542397-L.jpg

Trying to see if there was a Nantucket reflection:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/6542871-L.jpg

(There wasn't.) When I came upon a boy and his dad who had netted a huge snapping turtle and pulled it up onto the little bridge:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/6543018-L.jpg

What a photo opportunity. I immediately switched to macro mode and started to shoot:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/6543268-L.jpg

Suffice to say, this guy was mad. He hissed like a cat and chased us around the bridge:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/6543053-L.jpg

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/6543385-L.jpg

I think you could use him to cut conduit. Anyway, the story has a happy ending for the turtle, who got thrown back. (That net is a good tool.)