Where are the Turtles?

Today while walking the trails we've blazed on Die Weide, we came across an empty turtle shell. I decided to write about this as we have seen around a dozen empty turtle shells, two of which I've photographed below.

 This one was located in the northwest corner of the property.

This one was found in a hole in the north-central area.

Almost all of the turtle shells we've found are of this large, mature turtle size. Have the turtles turned our property into turtle graveyards like elephants? Inge and I are wondering why we have never seen a live turtle on the property in all our explorations. It'd seem there ought to be plenty of turtles given all the turtle shells we've found!

Most of the day was spent watering the orchard, the blackberries and raspberries, the grape vines and of course, the garden. Here's this week's garden shot. I hope to take a picture a week to track the growth of the garden.