{"id":3593,"date":"2009-11-26T15:01:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T20:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2010-01-16T09:39:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T14:39:18","slug":"torpedo-ray-strands-in-foggy-wellfleet-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3593","title":{"rendered":"Torpedo Ray Strands in Foggy Wellfleet Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wellfleet Harbor Enshrouded in Holmesian Fog<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

With fog so thick you could\u00c2\u00a0be forgiven for mistaking Wellfleet Harbor for the Thames, Outer Cape Cod enjoys lingering mild temperatures as Thanksgiving dawns.\u00c2\u00a0 Chilled surface waters and\u00c2\u00a0warm bay\u00c2\u00a0breezes\u00c2\u00a0stir a ghostly\u00c2\u00a0brew of mists, clouds and dampened echoes.\u00c2\u00a0 While not actually “raining,” you soak clean through to the bone just walking\u00c2\u00a0down the beach.<\/p>\n

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Small Torpedo Ray Emerges from Fog<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A stranded torpedo ray\u00c2\u00a0had been\u00c2\u00a0reported by cove residents earlier this week and had been spied by Mass Audubon\u00c2\u00a0staff last weekend near the boat ramp\u00c2\u00a0at Shirttail Point.\u00c2\u00a0 The last sighting was “under the high bank at Chipman’s Cove,” which stretches from Duck Creek\u00c2\u00a0in the north to the springtime terrapin mating aggregation in the south.\u00c2\u00a0 From Old Pier Landing we walked the bank south and found only a decomposing 7-foot ocean sunfish that had been buried, but\u00c2\u00a0was now re-surfacing through weathering tides.\u00c2\u00a0 We headed north and discovered the torpedo ray carcass in front of a seawall and high bank opposite the town pier at Shirttail Point.<\/p>\n

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Small Torpedo Ray in Wellfleet Harbor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This carcass had been heavily depredated and was quite decomposed.\u00c2\u00a0 It measured just a tad over one foot wide and only two\u00c2\u00a0& a half foot long from snout to the trailing edge of the tail fin.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Information on torpedo rays (Torpedo nobiliana<\/em>)\u00c2\u00a0can be found at the Turtle Journal posting, Shocking Discovery! Torpedo Ray in Wellfleet Bay<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wellfleet Harbor Enshrouded in Holmesian Fog With fog so thick you could\u00c2\u00a0be forgiven for mistaking Wellfleet Harbor for the Thames, Outer Cape Cod enjoys lingering mild temperatures as Thanksgiving dawns.\u00c2\u00a0 Chilled surface waters and\u00c2\u00a0warm bay\u00c2\u00a0breezes\u00c2\u00a0stir a ghostly\u00c2\u00a0brew of mists, clouds and dampened echoes.\u00c2\u00a0 While not actually “raining,” you soak clean through to the bone just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[824],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593"}],"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=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}