crabing/turtles id?

[Papasown]

Hey Kmaty, When I was a kid growing up on LBI, we used to help those terrapins across the main boulevard in their quest to get from the ocean to Barnegat Bay. They were always in a hurry to get there, but got turned around after we picked them up, and often wanted to go back into the street. Now days behind my house at a brackish feeder creek into the Manasquan, the snapper turtle comes for the killie trap. He can crush it with his strong jaws, but wants to drag it out of the water first, so they don't swim away. One of these bad boys is as big as a cocktail table, and loves baby swans and ducks, also. I always have a watchful eye when the labs go swimming. If he goes near the dogs, he's soup!