{"id":5285,"date":"2001-05-23T20:54:46","date_gmt":"2001-05-24T01:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2010-03-11T21:03:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T02:03:19","slug":"foul-and-fare-%e2%80%94-23-may-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5285","title":{"rendered":"Foul and Fare \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 23 May 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-1-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5287\" title=\"05-23-1 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-1-480.jpg\" alt=\"05-23-1 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-1-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-1-480-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Easterly Storms Linger\u00c2\u00a0over\u00c2\u00a0Blackfish Creek<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Reversing a seasonal drought in one week calls for some seriously foul weather.\u00c2\u00a0 And when winds back out of the east and off the North Atlantic, conditions on the Cape deteriorate quickly.\u00c2\u00a0 Temperatures remained in the mild 50s, but raw gusty rain pelted the Land of Ooze, enticing terrapins to add another layer of mud and sleep passed their dawn wake-up call.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-2-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5288\" title=\"05-23-2 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-2-480.jpg\" alt=\"05-23-2 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-2-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-2-480-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Male Diamondback Terrapin #1071<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Yesterday, the 22nd, a single young male braved the elements.\u00c2\u00a0 Terrapin #1071 was propelled through the rapids at nearly dead low.\u00c2\u00a0 He looked a bit shell-shocked, to coin a turtle phrase, fully withdrawn inside and rather sluggish.\u00c2\u00a0 A strapping 6-year-old, he quickly warmed once protected from the blustery winds and returned with the incoming tide back to the sheltered safety of his paludal home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-3-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5289\" title=\"05-23-3 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-3-480.jpg\" alt=\"05-23-3 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-3-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-3-480-266x300.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Rainbow over Outer Cape Cod<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">This morning dawned with hope but little else.\u00c2\u00a0 As sunrise broke over Blackfish Creek, a towering rainbow stretched across the northern sky with faint promise of better days.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet, storm clouds soon swept in from the sea to repaint our backdrop in drizzly gray.\u00c2\u00a0 Unmoved by Nature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s twists and turns, turtles slept in \u00e2\u20ac\u201d again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-4-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5290\" title=\"05-23-4 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-4-480.jpg\" alt=\"05-23-4 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-4-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-23-4-480-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Terrapin Hatchlings Knotch and Terry Await Release<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">On the brighter side, rescued hatchlings Knotch and Terry continue steady progress toward release on Thursday morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Knotch (left) has reached full normalcy and only awaits improved weather conditions; Terry still seems a bit affected by her severe dehydration and has taken to spending each night soaking in fresh water.\u00c2\u00a0 But she looks a lot better than her desiccated image as she was retrieved from the dusty Goose Pond Trail on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easterly Storms Linger\u00c2\u00a0over\u00c2\u00a0Blackfish Creek\u00c2\u00a0 Reversing a seasonal drought in one week calls for some seriously foul weather.\u00c2\u00a0 And when winds back out of the east and off the North Atlantic, conditions on the Cape deteriorate quickly.\u00c2\u00a0 Temperatures remained in the mild 50s, but raw gusty rain pelted the Land of Ooze, enticing terrapins to add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285"}],"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=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5294,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}