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03-24-2013, 06:06 PM
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Secretsquirrel
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: South Shore , MA
Posts: 659
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Beach finds
I am sure this was a thread before, but I wasn't able to find it.
I was taking the dog for a walk this morning and came across a few good sizes pieces of coal. I remember Tagger telling me about some coal that washes ashore is from a few shipwrecks. I am sure these pieces weren't due to where they were found.
It also reminded of something I found in 2010.
The Boston Light Letter Box. It is basically a box that you sign and put somewhere for others to find. Somehow it ended up in the ocean. Pictures below.
I'm sure others have found some really interesting things, what are some of the interesting things you've found.
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03-24-2013, 06:24 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 2,939
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Never heard of this until I found one in a tree last week while fishing with my son. It seems similar. There was a small scroll to sign and date.
Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site
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03-24-2013, 07:42 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 12,632
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love this thing
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03-25-2013, 07:14 PM
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Secretsquirrel
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: South Shore , MA
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Originally Posted by WESTPORTMAFIA
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Yea, seems similar. The one I found had a few years worth of signatures. |
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03-25-2013, 07:32 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Burrillville,RI
Posts: 192
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Geocash.... definitely ...hide and seek for geeks as my nerdy friend says.... found them under the point st bridge as well
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03-26-2013, 03:34 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 450
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I was walking down to à spot an this drunk Old broad starts to move so i kept walking and my buddie wants to help her.... So i keep walking 
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03-26-2013, 04:45 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Ashland, Mass.
Posts: 596
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Found this on a Gansett shoreline one morning... pretty cool.
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03-26-2013, 09:04 AM
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Cape Crusader
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Ashland, MA
Posts: 323
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Uh, what is that? Looks like a dead baby orca.
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03-26-2013, 09:34 AM
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All up in the Interweb!
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: In the dog house.
Posts: 5,205
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Blitzseeker
Uh, what is that? Looks like a dead baby orca.
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Looks like a Chupagansettcabra to me! |
Co-Host of The Surfcast Podcast
"Out there in the surf is where it's at, that's where the line gets drawn in the sand between those who talk fishing and those who live it."
- a wise man. 
One good fish, a sharpie does not make...
Certified rock hopping billy goat.
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03-26-2013, 09:38 AM
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All up in the Interweb!
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: In the dog house.
Posts: 5,205
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I found this guy in late May of 2011 in SoCo, RI. Measured about 4 feet long or so.
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Co-Host of The Surfcast Podcast
"Out there in the surf is where it's at, that's where the line gets drawn in the sand between those who talk fishing and those who live it."
- a wise man.
One good fish, a sharpie does not make...
Certified rock hopping billy goat.
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03-26-2013, 09:44 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Narragansett
Posts: 903
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I've heard that commercial fishermen occasionally catch sturgeon in the RI fish traps and presumably release tham unharmed. Who knows?
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03-26-2013, 10:06 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
Posts: 4,152
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GregW
I am sure this was a thread before, but I wasn't able to find it.
I was taking the dog for a walk this morning and came across a few good sizes pieces of coal. I remember Tagger telling me about some coal that washes ashore is from a few shipwrecks. I am sure these pieces weren't due to where they were found.
It also reminded of something I found in 2010.
The Boston Light Letter Box. It is basically a box that you sign and put somewhere for others to find. Somehow it ended up in the ocean. Pictures below.
I'm sure others have found some really interesting things, what are some of the interesting things you've found.
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Check out Atlasquest.com and you can see just how popular letterboxing really is.
I believe that box was planted on 4/9/2008 and was considered lost. It was last "found" by a fellow letterboxer on 11/21/2009.
I will check to see if that is indeed the missing letterbox. |
I am a legend in my own mind! 
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03-26-2013, 01:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Cape Cod, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Blitzseeker
Uh, what is that? Looks like a dead baby orca.
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That is exactly what that looks like, wow, really cool. |
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03-26-2013, 01:51 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 2,939
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sea Flat
That is exactly what that looks like, wow, really cool.
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Baby Orca's weigh around 400 pounds. |
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03-26-2013, 02:19 PM
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Secretsquirrel
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: South Shore , MA
Posts: 659
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FishermanTim
Check out Atlasquest.com and you can see just how popular letterboxing really is.
I believe that box was planted on 4/9/2008 and was considered lost. It was last "found" by a fellow letterboxer on 11/21/2009.
I will check to see if that is indeed the missing letterbox.
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This might make sense. Somehow it ended up in the ocean and washed ashore. I found it around October 2010. I put it in a new hiding spot, but not sure if it was ever refound. |
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03-26-2013, 02:36 PM
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Frank Capone
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Hamden, Connecticut
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Quote:
Originally Posted by massbassman
Found this on a Gansett shoreline one morning... pretty cool.
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I'd day either a baby seal or the character "idea" for the The Walking Dead |
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03-26-2013, 02:44 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: S. Yarmouth, MA
Posts: 1,604
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Walking the "strand" on a beach that maybe isn't that heavily traversed has been a practice of mine since I was a kid. Never found anything of great value, lots of sea glass, and skate egg cases, driftwood, coal, (mostly) broken lures and pieces of rope, chunks of buoys that got hacked up by a propeller. Good stuff.
That Letterboxing is very interesting and finally explains what my wife and I found about 15 years ago walking the trail by the Museum of Natural History in Brewster where we discovered one.
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03-26-2013, 07:34 PM
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Annisquam Assassin
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Peabody, MA
Posts: 669
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looks like a porpoise
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Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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03-27-2013, 06:54 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Ashland, Mass.
Posts: 596
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Went to the Edge later that morning and Arden and I looked up in one of his books and decided that it most closely resembled a baby pilot whale. Really cool find but man did it stink.!!!!
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03-27-2013, 08:01 AM
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Surfcaster
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 834
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Found this a couple years ago. One of my favorites.
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03-27-2013, 08:29 AM
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Not Jack
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Other Cape
Posts: 1,239
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I'll have to yell at Arden for that one. 
That's a Harbor Porpoise, for sure... Telltale sign is the teeth- Pilot whales have pointy teeth, harbor porps have those flatter "spade-shaped" ones. The head is a giveaway too, as well as the dorsal (what's left!). Good photos.
Coolest thing I found was a fully grown dead leatherback at the seawall next to Ocean Ave on the end of King's beach. Probably 7' long. Headless. |
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03-27-2013, 08:58 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Ashland, Mass.
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Thats funny cause the teeth were what we were stuck on, as they are very smiliar in that species. Thanks for clearing that up!! Do you think that was a baby or is that the full size?, it was about 5 ft long.
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03-27-2013, 09:49 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 427
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Sturgeon are caught once in a blue moon off our coast. This is a picture of RIRock's Grandfather and my father with one he caught when he was a commercial fisherman back in the day.
He is unloading it at Parascandolo's fish dock in Newport. I remember him saying they were rare and this was the biggest he ever remembers seeing.
The fish was caught on a dragger so was dead when it hit the deck.
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[SIGPIC][/SIGPI I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades, but the cards were all the same
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03-27-2013, 10:19 AM
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Annisquam Assassin
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Peabody, MA
Posts: 669
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cool pic tautog!
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Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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03-27-2013, 02:04 PM
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Not Jack
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Other Cape
Posts: 1,239
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Pretty close to an adult. The biggest one I've ever seen was 8'. Most commonly 5-6'.
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04-01-2013, 01:37 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: RI
Posts: 19
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I "found" something at the seawall in Westerly last year. Got knocked off a rock and fell into something big, dead and stinky. Too far gone to tell what it was in the dark, but it was several feet long and long dead. My gear stank for days afterward.
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Professional Lurker
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04-02-2013, 03:42 AM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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about 3 am on Block Island ..
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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04-02-2013, 06:26 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Ashland, Mass.
Posts: 596
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Until I blew it up, I was thinking you lucky SOB!!
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