More about helping terrapins cross the road: try and be sure the turtle wants to cross before you help it cross the road. Diamondback terrapins will often lay their eggs on Stone Harbor Boulevard right next to the pavement, and will look around for the spot they want to choose. Please don’t interrupt a terrapin in the nest-searching, digging, or egg-laying process. Sometimes they come out of the marsh, finish laying their eggs right next to the road and then just go back into the marsh on the same side and they don’t cross the road—but not always! In a perfect world, you or I have time to wait and see if the turtle will need help crossing the road. To see another kind of turtle we helped across Stone Harbor Boulevard, scroll down…