Kali, that ride sounds great. It's so nice when you finally get out there after a miserable rainy day wishing you could ride.

Last week I did my own good deed of stopping and carrying a snapper off the road and down the ravine to the stream so he wouldn't get hit. His shell was about a foot long- fairly large. Heavy dude. At the end of my ride that same day, my DH spotted a tiny stone on the road and pointed it out to me. Turns out it was a teeny weeny newborn snapper, about an inch long! Cutest lil' thing, with big dark eyes. Well we carried him off the road to safety too.
I think he was sent to thank us for rescuing the other one earlier.