{"id":7375,"date":"2010-09-16T19:47:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T00:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=7375"},"modified":"2010-11-14T13:43:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T18:43:57","slug":"life-on-the-edge-adventure-of-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=7375","title":{"rendered":"Life on the Edge: Adventure of a Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rescue\u00c2\u00a0Endangered Sea Turtles,<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Recover Marine Megafauna<\/span><\/h2>\n

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\"Life<\/a><\/p>\n

Tiny Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Rescued from Brewster Beach<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

A perfect summer ends and fall brings dramatic change to Cape Cod.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Not just foliage, but the whole fabric of\u00c2\u00a0coastal life transforms from easy summer to harsh winter.\u00c2\u00a0 Summer’s gentle breezes, cerulean skies and toasty beaches are blown away\u00c2\u00a0by autumn storms that howl across the bay.\u00c2\u00a0 Summer ripples grow into\u00c2\u00a0towering breakers that reshape beaches and deposit oceans of\u00c2\u00a0treasure on the shoreline.\u00c2\u00a0 Buried among seaweed, flotsam and jetsam lie adventure and discovery in the form of marine creatures that are tossed ashore to helplessly succumb to the elements.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet, thanks to beach patrols launched by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, more than a thousand of the most endangered sea turtles in the world have been rescued from these impossible circumstances and restored back to the wild.\u00c2\u00a0 Countless marine mammals, giant ocean fish and amazing denizens of the sea have been recovered, yielding breakthrough discoveries chronicled in nature magazines and scientific journals.\u00c2\u00a0 And now you’re invited to experience this adventure first hand in Mass Audubon’s Marine Animal Stranding Weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sue Wieber Nourse Examines 11-Foot Blue Shark<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the weekend of\u00c2\u00a0November 5th to 7th, Mass Audubon\u00c2\u00a0invites a few adventurous\u00c2\u00a0souls to join its crack team of coastal rescuers.\u00c2\u00a0 From Friday to Sunday, teams will scour beaches, day and night,\u00c2\u00a0from Provincetown to\u00c2\u00a0Sagamore in search of distressed animals.\u00c2\u00a0 In between high tide patrols, participants will take a bayside cruise to Billingsgate Shoal to gain a sea critter’s eye-view of the coastline, to search for pods of pre-stranding animals, and to investigate harbor and grey seal colonies, as well as overwintering seabirds and sea ducks.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Experts will reveal secrets of marine biology and coastal ecology in seminar settings and one-on-one lab work, and still have time to join participants for quiet dinner conversation about the future of the world’s oceans and\u00c2\u00a0their most precious species.<\/p>\n