Climate warming and various other human impacts present challenges to freshwater turtles and especially adult females that migrate for nesting. We radio-tracked adult female turtles, Chelodina oblonga (n=101), in an urban wetland complex comprising one permanent, one semi-permanent and one ephemeral wetland in Western Australia over a two-year period to develop an understanding of strategies used to cope with wetting and drying cycles. Specifically, we categorised the movement sequences of individuals according to a pre-existing framework of among home-range movement developed from telemetry of several non-aestivating stream fishes. This framework provided a useful platform; however, it was necessary for us to expand the range of home-range behaviours to include aestivation and brumation and outside home-range behaviours to include nomadism and nesting migrations. Aestivation proved to be an especially important strategy for adult female turtles (95% of individuals) in the ephemeral wetland during two drying events. In addition to elevated female mortality associated with nesting behaviour, female turtle strategies for coping with extremes in climate and wetting-and drying particularly, warrant further research and management attention.