My cousin and I found an endangered North American Pond Turtle....

The turtle was just wandering it's way across a two lane road as two ton cars were zipping by it. I told my cousin Andrea to turn around and pull over and I would jump out and grab it. Before we could get out another car zoomed by, narrowly missing our little pal. We picked him up and took him back to the house. The whole time all he wanted to do was escape. This turtle moved a lot, and quickly. It was more like a lizard with a shell.

Anyway, today we went to an animal shelter hospital, and they confirmed it was a pond turtle, and it looked wild and they told us since it was endangered it was illegal to keep it and we should release it no more than three miles from where we found it. So we went driving around, and we managed to find a really nice creek in Walnut Creek, go figure, and here are the pictures of the realease. This guy ran fast toward the water. I hardly had any time to get my camera and take pictures. He jumped in the creek water, blew out his air, sunk to the bottom, and crawled along the bottom of the creek, getting away from us to the other side. He was under water for about 5 min, and we lost sight of him so we left. I miss him already though. Here is the pics.