Chilly May trip to the Beechwood Nature Reserve

In mid-May we took a trip to the Beechwood nature reserve with our good friends, D, E and A. The reserve had a nicely graded (not too steep) one mile loop and a cool pond where we stopped to harass turtles and frogs. We saw an island in the pond with these big eggs on it (turtle eggs?) and this turtle on the rock looked so shiny that many of us thought it was a statue! When Dan ran around the pond to scare it, we discovered it was indeed real!