At about 14:30 we got a call saying that something had washed up at Coconut Bay. We drove the old red landrover along the 7km stretch of beach. From afar the object looked like a small whale but as we drove nearer we could see that it was just bones. Closer inspection showed that it was the tail and a few ribs of a much larger whale. As the sperm whale from last week was carried off by the high spring tide only a few days before we assumed it was part of this. Before being carried away by the tide the sperm whale's stomach exploded due to a build up of gas inside the rotting body. Luckily we live far enough away that we didn't whiteness that or smell the aftermath.
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| Piling into the landrover to explore the beach whale |
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| Object from afar looked like a small whale. |
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Tail, vertebrae and a few rib bones most probably from the
sperm whale beach a week before. (7m) |
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| off roading selfie |
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