{"id":3491,"date":"2009-11-12T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2010-01-16T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T14:50:12","slug":"big-day-yields-three-ocean-sunfish-pilot-whale-bones-and-a-capecast-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3491","title":{"rendered":"“BIG” Day Yields Three Ocean Sunfish, Pilot Whale Bones and a CapeCast Broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Five\u00c2\u00a0Foot Ocean Sunfish in Wellfleet Harbor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Turtle Journal visited Chipman’s Cove in Wellfleet on Outer Cape Cod this morning.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Parking at the end of Old Pier Road, we found a fairly fresh ocean sunfish carcass about 25 feet to the right\/north of the Town Landing.<\/p>\n

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Ocean Sunfish Snout, Mouth, Eye, Gills and Pectoral Fin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Using\u00c2\u00a0Don’s sneakers as a\u00c2\u00a0gross ruler, this sunfish measured ~ 5 feet long and ~ 6 feet wide\/high.<\/p>\n

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Seven Foot Ocean Sunfish in Chipman’s Cove<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fifty feet to the left\/south of the Old Pier Town Landing, we discovered a rapidly decomposing ocean sunfish.\u00c2\u00a0 Gross measurements yielded a length of ~ 7 feet and a width\/height of 7.5 feet.<\/p>\n

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Two Giant Ocean Sunfish Strand in Chipman’s Cove<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The video documents the two ocean sunfish Turtle Journal discovered in Wellfleet’s Chipman’s Cove today.<\/p>\n

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Partially Necropsied Ocean Sunfish on Lieutenant Island<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Our next stop was the west shore of Lieutenant Island to check out a reported ocean sunfish that had stranded last weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 This specimen had been partially necropsied to ascertain its gender … before an astronomic 12-foot tide could strand the team on the island.<\/p>\n

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Pilot Whale Bones Emerge from Old Salt Marsh<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

About 100 yards north of the stranded sunfish, winter tides have eroded the beach on the west shore of Lieutenant Island, once again exposing pilot whale bones from the peet of a long\u00c2\u00a0dead salt marsh.\u00c2\u00a0 Last year we found four pilot whale skeletons in this area before summer sands raised the beach level above this burial site.\u00c2\u00a0 See Discovery of Historic Pilot Whale Bones Hints at Cape Cod\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Past<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Exposed Pilot Whale Bones on Lieutenant Island<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

With giant ocean sunfish and pilot whales, Turtle Journal had a BIG day this Thursday.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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CapeCast: Ocean Oddity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet, there was still more to come.\u00c2\u00a0 CapeCast, the broadcast vehicle of the Cape Cod Times, published a delightfully hilarious and informative video on the large ocean sunfish that Turtle Journal discovered this weeked at Corporation Beach in Dennis.\u00c2\u00a0 See Ocean Sunfish Strandings Continue on Cape Cod<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> or on the picture above to watch the CapeCast video … and ENJOY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five\u00c2\u00a0Foot Ocean Sunfish in Wellfleet Harbor Turtle Journal visited Chipman’s Cove in Wellfleet on Outer Cape Cod this morning.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Parking at the end of Old Pier Road, we found a fairly fresh ocean sunfish carcass about 25 feet to the right\/north of the Town Landing. Ocean Sunfish Snout, Mouth, Eye, Gills and Pectoral Fin Using\u00c2\u00a0Don’s sneakers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[823,824],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3894,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions\/3894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}