Tuesday, April 18, 2017,
This is a Diamondback Terrapin. A brand new one. Handsome little beastie, no?
![Baby Diamondback Terrapin at Sunken Meadow. 20160527095542 (1)-5x7awtww](http://www.joekayaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20160527095542-1-5x7awtww-500x357.jpg)
These pics were taken almost a year ago at Sunken Meadow State Park. (Yeah, I’m still behind on my posts). It was the start of a good day. I didn’t know that yet, or rather, I didn’t know how good it was going to to be. I did know that it was a fine morning to be walking the beach and maybe for taking some decent pics. It was late May and I was enjoying a morning before the sweaty days of summer here on Long Island. I couldn’t know it yet, but before my visit was through I’d get some fairly decent shots of a Piping Plover patrolling the beach. Not to mention these pics.
![Little man on the move. Go, Terrapin, go. 20160527095656-5x7wtww](http://www.joekayaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20160527095656-5x7wtww-500x357.jpg)
When I came across this little one – (check out the photo below to see how tiny he was) – I was looking to take pics and video of the hundreds, heck, maybe thousands of Fiddler Crabs that inhabit this little spit of land when I noticed this guy booking away right beneath my feet. I very nearly stepped on him. I failed, completely, to get anything useful of the Fiddler Crabs that day, but just look at what I did get. You can never know what you’re going to find when you step out the door.
![Yeah. This is one tiny Terrapin. 20160527095936 (1)-5x7wtww](http://www.joekayaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20160527095936-1-5x7wtww-500x357.jpg)
All we need to do is take that step. Just look and see what’s waiting for us. This and other little wonders are out there every day. JK