{"id":1384,"date":"2006-08-07T10:32:44","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T18:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/funny_i_thought_for_sure_it_was_a_mermaid.html"},"modified":"2006-08-07T10:32:44","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T18:32:44","slug":"funny_i_thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/funny_i_thought.html","title":{"rendered":"Funny, I Thought For Sure It Was A Mermaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t tell me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/07\/nyregion\/07manatee.html\">there&#8217;s a manatee in the Hudson now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Added to the chronicles of great beasts that have descended upon New York City in the year 2006 is one that is arguably the greatest of them all. A beast, upwards of 1,000 pounds and a cousin to the elephant, which dwarfs the coyote, the deer and the dolphin that preceded it. A beast that, at hundreds of miles north of its natural habitat, has most likely made the longest and most arduous journey among them. A beast, with a pudgy-nosed face and a sweet-potato-shaped body, that could even be considered cute: a manatee.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past week, boaters and bloggers have been energetically tracking a manatee in its lumbering expedition along the Atlantic Coast and up the Hudson River.<\/p>\n<p>John H. Vargo, the publisher of Boating on the Hudson magazine, put out an alert last week, much to the incredulity of some boaters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some were laughing about it, because it couldn&#8217;t possibly be true,&#8221; Mr. Vargo said.<\/p>\n<p>The manatee has been spotted at 23rd Street near Chelsea Piers, West 125th Street, and later in Westchester County. It appeared to be healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Shull, a boater from Ossining, spotted the manatee about 4:30 p.m. yesterday while his 21-foot boat was floating at Kingsland Point Park in Sleepy Hollow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was gigantic,&#8221; Mr. Shull said. &#8220;When we saw it surface, its back was just mammoth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is unusual, but not unprecedented for manatees to travel this far north &#8212; the seaweed-munching sea creatures are commonly associated with the warm waters of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Manatees have been reported along the shores of Long Island and even as far north as Rhode Island. It is unusual, however, for a manatee to be spotted inland in a river this far north.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t tell me there&#8217;s a manatee in the Hudson now: Added to the chronicles of great beasts that have descended upon New York City in the year 2006 is one that is arguably the greatest of them all. A beast, upwards of 1,000 pounds and a cousin to the elephant, which dwarfs the coyote, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_natural_world","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}