Turtles are pretty common along Missouri roads and we happened upon this guy on a dead end road so I was able to take a few moments to admire him. I don’t know if you can tell, but he’s pretty good size.
When I moved that rock from in front of him he decided to retreat and peek.
{Snake alert for Aims}
We decided to try to find a cache at Jolly Mill but as we crossed the bridge (the bridge we were on is the third photo from the top) we saw this swimming in the water below.
This water moccasin (western cottonmouth) was no baby either, he was big, and he wasn’t alone, we counted three of them.
See the fish below him? How cool.
That is one huge crawdad!
There were some nests on the bottom side of the bridge, and hanging out of one was. . .a snake skin! EEEK! I’m outta here!
Btw: we did NOT go after the cache.
