Snail

I have previously only seen cartoon pictures of this size of snail.  But a few days ago some girls saw me outside.  They came to our gate and one of them handed me a really large perfectly form shell. We do have a river someways from the house, but the ocean is quite far and this shell did not look like it had weathered, had no chips and was really nice along the edges.

I thanked the girls very much and notice that it looked like it was full of wet sand.  So I put it in the garden to let the sand dry and forgot about it.  A couple of days later I went outside early in the morning to brush my teeth and I saw this very large snail wearing what looked like my shell.  I went to the garden and the shell was gone and I was very glad that I had taken it to the garden and did not bring it directly into my room.  I continued to periodically check on the snail while I was getting ready for school.  For some unknown reason it decided to crawl up the outside wall of my house.  There isn't anything up there but a metal roof and I would think that it would be unpleasant for it to crawl along, if it could crawl along, the overhang and get on to the roof - but it was definitely feasible as it had climbed all the way up the outside wall of my house.

I wished I could have stayed longer to see what it did next, but I had to go to school and have not seen it since.