Ernie T

We spent our Saturday cleaning out Ernie Turtle's tank - a job we hate that takes up most of the day, but it has to be done. Ernie hasn't featured here for a while so I thought he should be today's photo. If you haven't met Ernie before, you can read about him and how we got him here - http://roachling.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/i-took-this-great-photo-of-our-turtle.html

and he has his own tag too - http://365project.org/tags/loggerhead%20musk%20turtle

He's roughly 40 years old now we believe and we adopted him after he was abandoned, after years of mistreatment.

[dh (delena)]

Lovely colourful shot - lucky Ernie.

[Hilary]

Lovely contrast with the red plant

[Cally]

I dislike cleaning out my animals as well, but at least they don't take the whole day! He is quite cute, in a snub nosed turtle kind of way :P :P :P

[Helge Erik Storheim]

Great shot of Ernie and very colourful place he lives ;-)

[herecirm]

Wow!! What an incredible looking animal! And I had no idea turtles could live that long. It's a great photograph and he looks like he has an amazing tank.

[Jen Hudson]

He certainly looks like he is smiling and appreciating your efforts. Lovely shot and colours.

[Rachel]

I love this shot. Lovely framing again. Is Ernie smiling?

[Louise]

@tryingforsighs
Thank you. He always looks like he's smiling!