Guest in my garden

My neighbor and I recently had a surprise visitor in our shared garden--a large yellow bellied slider turtle.  We live about half a mile from Buck Creek as the turtle would crawl but we have never had a turtle come up from the creek this far.  It had crossed my front yard but then was trapped by the chain link fence dividing our front yards from the back.   After a week, we decided that this poor turtle was "lost" and needed help to find its way back to the creek.  A yellow slider needs access to water in which it can submerge. 

I borrowed my tortoise's bathtub (plastic totes have many uses) and dechlorinated bath water to transport it.  It seemed quite pleased to be wet and back home where it belongs.