Happy Surprises

I was at a hotel in Santa Monica last month wandering around waiting for the people I was with to finish up a meeting there. I saw a waterfall out on the patio and went to investigate. The pond was full of VERY large coy fish. On a rock in the pond was a turtle sunning itself. As I watched the fish and the turtle I discovered another baby turtle, and then another, and then another bigger turtle. As I stood there I discovered about 6 turtles in the pond from the big one on the rock to little ones swimming around on the bottom. Because they're so close in color to the rocks on the bottom, I didn't see them until they moved so it sort of became a game of find the turtle.