{"id":904,"date":"2008-10-11T21:34:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T01:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2008-10-29T21:50:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T01:50:20","slug":"monet-school-of-menhaden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"Monet School of Menhaden"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Island Wharf (Center); Long Wharf and Beverly Yacht Club (Right)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Last evening about an hour before sunset, the Turtle Journal team strolled to the\u00c2\u00a0Marion town docks at Island Wharf in Sippican Harbor.\u00c2\u00a0 Located just north of the Beverly Yacht Club, the docks lie close to Ram Island and the outlet to Buzzards Bay.\u00c2\u00a0 So many yachts are moored in the protected inner harbor that one might literally hopscotch from deck to deck across the broad waterway.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0This busy location translates into fewer sightings of shy estuarine critters seeking safety from predators and dangerous encounters with humankind.<\/p>\n

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Inner Harbor and Island Wharf Left of Ram Island; Buzzards Bay Right<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So, rather than\u00c2\u00a0“on assignment,” we were merely enjoying a pre-sunset, postprandial walk from Turtle Journal Central along the south bank of Sippican Harbor.\u00c2\u00a0 As we climbed down the ramp, we were surpised to see a group of menhaden circling within feet of the empty floating\u00c2\u00a0dock.\u00c2\u00a0 This late on an October evening, the sun had dipped so low in the southwestern sky that it\u00c2\u00a0bathed the harbor in long waves of light and transformed the scene into a blurry impressionist reflection of reality as the rays\u00c2\u00a0ricocheted in the thick, plankton rich top layer of\u00c2\u00a0harbor water\u00c2\u00a0.\u00c2\u00a0 Ghostly fish cruised through the water with silver scales casting off flashes of reds, blues, violets\u00c2\u00a0and eerie grays.<\/p>\n

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Monet School of Menhaden<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00c2\u00a0effect was\u00c2\u00a0stunning; an impressionist’s canvas painted in light and life.\u00c2\u00a0 As we walked back with the image echoing in our memory, we thought had Monet kept fish in his Giverny water garden, he would surely have imported menhaden for such an autumnal moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Island Wharf (Center); Long Wharf and Beverly Yacht Club (Right) Last evening about an hour before sunset, the Turtle Journal team strolled to the\u00c2\u00a0Marion town docks at Island Wharf in Sippican Harbor.\u00c2\u00a0 Located just north of the Beverly Yacht Club, the docks lie close to Ram Island and the outlet to Buzzards Bay.\u00c2\u00a0 So many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[824],"tags":[592,96,599,597,591,593,453,590,475,598,594,400,596,110,595],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904"}],"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=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}