Snapping Turtle?

As I was motoring up the driveway, there was a large turtle climbing out of a muddy pool of water on his (or her) way to the pond. It was a foot long and ten inches wide!  According to the locals, there are many, many turtles in the ponds in this county!  I hope they eat mosquito larva...

Reminds me of a poem by Ogden Nash:

The Turtle by Ogden Nash
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex. I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.						Sunshine brings happiness!