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This guy has a 6 inch carapace. He was right next to a loggerhead nest. Strange looking sea turtle.

I don't think it's a sea turtle. Looks more like a small sulcatta.

>>This guy has a 6 inch carapace. He was right next to a loggerhead nest. Strange looking sea turtle.
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Nice..I've never seen one on the beach before..It is a strange looking sea turtle

Where was your photo taken? Nice tortoise.

I took these pics on the gulf side of FL..bout 40 miles north of Tampa.

another pic.

Great photos.

Photo he looks like he has some old injuries.
Here's one away from the beach. He had a damaged plastron but it was also healed.

Nice pics...I've always liked Gophers. Unfortunetly every time i visit Florida I find less torts and more development. The last tract of land they still live on in my grandparents area also is home to about half a dozen homeless people. I actually found evidence that they had been eating them...discarded shells right next to their little shantytown. I contacted DNR and was told it is next to impossible to prosecute drifters. The worst part was most of the shells were from tortoises I have seen many times in the past 12 years.
In one of the other pics i took you can see the torts shell was burnt in a brush fire but was completly healed.

This was a huge old female that lives on my grandparents property. I see her every year grazing in the backyard.