A few years back, the city of Ft. Walton Beach filled in a swampy area to expand the city-owned golf course.
Thousands of turtles were displaced and tried crossing a busy highway to find a new home.
There were dead turtles along that highway for months.................
I had a small farm across from a lake that the DNR owned, so no fishin’, no nothin’ - so I just enjoyed the ‘nature’ of it all.
It wasn’t the first turtle killed on our road, but it was by FAR the largest.
I had to use a snow shovel to push it to the other ditch so my dogs wouldn’t get ‘interested’ in it and go by the road. Half of me was grossed out - the other half was thinking...’Turtle Soup.’ LOL!