We get very very few of them in the bay
But he had been coming up late summer and hanging around through the fall since I moved up from NC in the 8th grade. He'd always be in middle river, the gunpowder, bush, Chester or farely creek. I hadn't gotten out to see him over the past 3 years, but by father and some friends said that he was making himself known more and more over the past 2 years, even visiting the swim beach at hart miller island.
Godspeed northern Chesapeake manatee
I spent some time with a pack of those in the Crystal River in Florida. A very gentle and curious creature.
Will wrote:
BOOM! And there it is... 1st reply 
Will wrote:
I read the original post... said "would that be in bad taste?" and my wife says "probably", so I refrained
There have been a few sighted near me in the last couple weeks, but typically they by this time of year they have already gone farther south.
I've only seen one in 3 years since I've been in NC and I didn't know they ventured way up in the Chesapeake Bay.
In reply to T.J.:
In the last 5 years they've been spotted in Massachusetts. There's a small population that lives in Pamlico sound and Cape Fear areas in NC.
My ex and our two girls (9 and 7) just got back from swimming with manatees. Sounds like the adventure of a lifetime.
I recorded one pooping at epcot. I have no shame.
They taste like dolphin or alligator? I like both.
captdownshift wrote: In reply to T.J.: There's a small population that lives in Pamlico sound and Cape Fear areas in NC.
Cape Fear…don’t you have to cross the Bay of Suffering and go around the Peninsula of Lost Hope to get there?
Did they flush him down the toilet while the kids were at school?
Today a man was found dead in the water in the harbor less then 2 miles away
captdownshift wrote: Today a man was found dead in the water in the harbor less then 2 miles away
Clearly there's a murderous zombie/ghost manatee on the loose.
I'd heard that manatees were a lot more common and had a wider range a few hundred years ago, and they're just starting to expand back into some of their old habitat.
Sucks that one of the front runners is dead.
In reply to Brett_Murphy:
The bit of irony is that a second trash wheel was installed in the harbor hours before the manatee fatality was reported. The area has heavy traffic from cruise ships, Trans atlantic freighters and the tugs that guide them in for the 7 miles out the pataspco and south to the bay bridge. They are yet to release cause of death, but I suspect that a tug boat captain wasn't on the look out for manatees in the inner harbor of baltimore and it may have been struck by a freighter or tug boat. I suspect that cause of death won't be cold shock as many assume, but that it will be blunt force trauma or drowning from having been sucked below by the forces from the wake of one of the ships. The tragic irony of course would be if it was due to the one that delivered the new trash wheel to the harbor.
In reply to captdownshift:
I live near Cape Fear. Here is the article I read recently: http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20161121/manatees-sighted-near-southport
That article says they usually move south for the winter from here, that is why I was surprised they would be up Bal'more way.
In reply to T.J.:
Wilmington is one of the most underrated places in the country to live.
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