The Legend of the Giant Snapping Turtle
I’ve long heard stories about a giant snapping turtle that lives in the Duck Pond. Comes now a post on flickr showing what purports to be an image of our Nessie (Fordie?):
According to the poster (a former employee of Special Collections), that white square floating in the water is a cube of shredded wheat…which is probably about an inch long…which would make the head of the guy who’s about to eat it some 9″ long…such that the whole beast is probably bigger than the lid of a trashcan.
Here’s another shot, with geese for comparison. Yikes.
August 21st, 2008 at 7:32 pm
My girlfriend (Jen Paroulek ‘07) and I were walking along the pond to feed the ducks. She thought that there was a face looking at us from the water. I of course thought it was just a rock, and was shocked when the snapping turtle’s head poked out further. We were able to feed it some food - but it tends not to like the other water creatures much. We saw it snap at the geese several times. I’m glad that someone got a nice picture of it! It is huge and can usually be found back behind the duck pond among the water vegetation (where I had previously seen it once before). Thansk for keeping the blogging up to date!
-Josh