Poor Turtle

I have never seen so many, shall I say "wild turtles."  We saw two in a matter three days while we were on our Spring Break vacation.  Josh decided to take the scenic route as he always enjoys, and along the way we saw some beautiful country through Brown County State Park, Nashville, IN.  We were driving along when all the sudden a large turtle is meandering across the middle of the road.  We were all very excited, so we whipped a U-turn on a fairly quiet road and found a good place to pull over.  We got the camera ready, the kids were straining their eyes to see the little creature.  Josh was out of the car getting in place to take some close up pictures.  Along comes a large truck pulling a fifth wheel.  The truck makes his way to the middle of the road, trying to give our car plenty of room...you cannot even imagine the horror.  The truck absolutely smashes the turtle.  It made the loudest popping noise and red splatter.  With wide eyes and open mouths we all couldn't stop looking.  Becca burst into tears.  Jocelyn looked on puzzled and not sure how to react.  Josh ran back to us and quickly turned the car back to our destination.  After a few minutes I couldn't help but shed a few tears of my own.  As I right this my heart strings are tugging at additional tears.  Josh and I felt really bad;  unintentionally we caused the death of that turtle.  For such a quiet road, we never expected something like that would ever happen!

On our way home, on an even less busy road, we found another turtle...Josh jumped out with our camera, got a few shots and helped the creature off the very dangerous road.  Redemption?  Maybe...