She was traveling east along the gutter, probably following it back to a drain that passes beneath the road and flows into Spruce Run Reservoir. I bet she'd just finished laying her clutch.
I noticed her because of her enormity. Her shell was 18" long; and, when she extended her neck, she was about 2' 8" long, nose to tail.
Her people have been around since the Miocene Epoch, about 14 million years ago, and she looks it–check out her totally dino tail! Humans, by contrast, have been around about 1/75 that amount of time, since about 200 thousand years ago.
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