They generally don't stay out of water for long. You often see them in June or so when females may wander far from water for nesting. They also may travel in the autumn and Spring....their winter hibernation area may be a different location than theri summer grounds. He/she may be heading for another location.
For such a small brain, turtles are great at remembering areas and traveling the same routes year after year.

Snappers are fast on land, too. I stopped to move a baby one out of the road once, and it had incredibly long legs. The durn thing looked like it could run.

I was outside most of the day and no snapper anywhere. Just as long as Mr. or Ms. Snapper has reached its destination far from here, I'm happy.

Be careful with those things they are not friendly turtles.

I had a cool turtle experience over the weekend. I was on our pond in the pedal boat, reading a book and drifting, when a small painted turtle swam right past the boat very slowly, completely unaware of me. I even heard its shell tapping gently against the hull a few times. I love observing wildlife up close like that.

I like turtles (not snappers though). Here are some photos of the painted fellows. I was surprised that the common box turtles can live for around 100 years. At least, that is what I heard on one of the nature channels.

http://www.fcps.edu/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/eastern_painted_turtle.htm

I had some nice wildlife visitors this year. I saw my first two mink this year in the yard.