<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Close Encounters of the Ocean Kind</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A Photographic Journey with John King</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><b>Thursday, May 23 7 pm</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2013</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Contact: Julie O’Neil 508-896-3867 or </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: windowtext;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1052" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); cursor: pointer;"><a href="mailto:adminsupprt@ccmnh.org" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">adminsupport@ccmnh.org</a></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: rgb(51, 126, 85);"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;">On Thursday, May 23 at 7 pm the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History will present <i>Close Encounters of the Ocean Kind – a </i><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Cape Cod Museum </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arial Bold';">of Natural History in Brewster</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arial Bold';">Presents</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 23.33333396911621px;"><i>Photographic Journey with</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 23.33333396911621px;"><i>John King</i>, explorer, photographer, author and Chatham conservationist.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 23.33333396911621px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 23.33333396911621px;">$5//Member. $7/Non-Member.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 23.33333396911621px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 23.33333396911621px;">John King will share insights into his personal voyage of re-discovery of the coastal and ocean wildlife that spend time each year in the waters off Cape Cod. During this hour-long presentation you will hear his stories and see photographs of unique encounters with birds, sharks and whales among other life forms.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 23.33333396911621px;">John, together with his wife Pam, has been pursuing a lifelong passion to experience and record the earth's wild places and wild things through their photography.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 23.33333396911621px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 23.33333396911621px;"><i>Wild</i><i> </i><i>Cape</i><i> Cod: Free by Nature</i> by John and Pamela King will be available in the Museum Gift Shop.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 23.33333396911621px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;">For further information, contact the Museum at 508-896-3867, Ext. # 133 <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1053" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); cursor: pointer;"><a href="http://www.ccm/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">www.ccm</a></span>nh.org</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> photo credit John King <i>Wild Cape Cod: Free by Nature</i></p></div></body></html>