Turtle w/ Attitude, What's your excuse?

Turtle

This turtle we found in the process of crossing a road. It is difficult to tell how big he was. He was good size and he was very alert. The Life in his eyes and the sense of purpose he had was obvious. He had to be decades old, someone said to count the plates on his back x5??? We used an Oar to nudge him along, out of the road, toward the stream he was headed for. If anything had a right to live and be left alone to be, it was that Turtle.