The scorching temperatures have everyone running to the beach — including Mary Lee, the great white shark.
The 16-foot man-eater who’s been hanging around the metropolitan-area waters got an early start to her morning, heading north from the Jersey Shore around 5:40 a.m.
Traveling parallel to the Bay Parkway in the New York-New Jersey bight, Mary Lee popped up on OCEARCH’s interactive tracking map five more times Tuesday morning.
At 8:26, the tracker showed the 3,500-pound sea queen heading straight for Robert Moses State Park on Long Island.
“Checking out Long Island’s beaches. @MaryLeeShark is near Jones Beach. Best place to be when it’s almost 90 degrees. Maybe I’ll join her ;}” tweeted @adriennefunny.
The social media-savvy shark has more than 34,600 followers on Twitter and regularly tweets about where she’s headed, what she’s eating and even answers some questions from her devoted fans.
OCEARCH, a nonprofit that studies great white sharks, started tracking Mary Lee back in September 2012. She was tagged near Cape Cod and has since traveled more than 15,500 miles.
A dot appears on her OCEARCH map every time her dorsal fin breaks the surface.