{"id":4845,"date":"2001-03-15T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-15T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4845"},"modified":"2010-03-03T17:50:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T22:50:25","slug":"chubby-still-hanging-on-%e2%80%94-15-march-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4845","title":{"rendered":"Chubby Still Hanging On \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 15 March 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4847\" title=\"03-15-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-1.jpg\" alt=\"03-15-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Taking water temperatures off Turtle Point this morning, I also checked on Chubby.\u00c2\u00a0 At first I thought she had left, since I couldn&#8217;t spot her from\u00c2\u00a0the bearberry hill overlook, and I so noted in my log.\u00c2\u00a0 But in the distant tidal flats I saw two large\u00c2\u00a0red objects which\u00c2\u00a0seemed suspicious.\u00c2\u00a0 I decided to investigate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4848\" title=\"03-15-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-2.jpg\" alt=\"03-15-2\" width=\"480\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-2-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">After a plodding, slogging, serpentine\u00c2\u00a0trek through the mud flats, I discovered these objects were bags filled with oysters collected from Fresh Brook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4849\" title=\"03-15-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-3.jpg\" alt=\"03-15-3\" width=\"480\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-3.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-3-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But on the way back to the shoreline, I nearly tripped over Chubby as she lay still and hidden in a marsh hollow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-4-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4850\" title=\"03-15-4 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-4-480.jpg\" alt=\"03-15-4 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-4-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-15-4-480-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">She was alert enough to react to my presence, but she continued wheezing and her breaths were labored.\u00c2\u00a0 I also saw slight traces of dried blood on the\u00c2\u00a0rim of her nostrils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking water temperatures off Turtle Point this morning, I also checked on Chubby.\u00c2\u00a0 At first I thought she had left, since I couldn&#8217;t spot her from\u00c2\u00a0the bearberry hill overlook, and I so noted in my log.\u00c2\u00a0 But in the distant tidal flats I saw two large\u00c2\u00a0red objects which\u00c2\u00a0seemed suspicious.\u00c2\u00a0 I decided to investigate. 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