Out at Swan Lake yesterday I enjoyed this trio catching some rays.

Volunteers at the Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary have tethered floating logs here and there all around the edges of the lake as basking spots fo...

The cruising Mallard Duck and the snoozing Western Painted Turtle above perfectly embody the scene these days at Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary....

Western Painted Turtle posing poolside at the Abkhazi Garden.

Yesterday's duckling shares his little pond with this pair of Painted Turtles. Looking at yesterday's duckling and today's turt...

Here's another Victoria resident that many of us have never seen, the Western Painted Turtle ( Chrysemys picta ) . This one lives at the...