...to spend an evening. After work Dr Moeckel, Dr Thomas and myself sojourned to North Walney Island to look at the dead Whale. The forecast threatened bad weather but if you let that stop you one will never do anything, anyway, we had 2 pairs of waterproof leggings. We walked along the beach about a mile to find the carcass. The wind was blowing up turbulent streaks of sand which gave the evening, dare I say it, an almost spiritual feel. There is something about the beach at Walney: if you ignore the windfarm, the buildings at Millom, the boats and the tideline litter it's easy to imagine that this is how it was hundreds of millions of years ago. One can almost see the horseshoe crabs washing ashore. I guess that's a lot of things to ignore, but it's all relative.
Anyway. It was fascinating to see the Whale, still as yet unidentified. It was, however, unfortunate that Dr Thomas felt it necessary to poke the carcass with a stick and throw stones at it. Ho hum. It didn't half stink as well.
DBH, that's effing horrible and damned interesting at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI recommend watching this if you haven't seen it already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vmnq5dBF7Y
Jeez. Somebody told me about this and I found it hard to believe. Here's a list of ways I'd deal with a dead Whale..
ReplyDelete1-Bury it and later exhume to display in local museum
2-Leave it to rot, it'll be a local attraction
3-Flog it to Japan/Norway for their 'scientific research'
4-Attempt to summon the great inuit god nuru to bring it back to life
5-Set fire to it
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332-Marry it
333-poke it with a stick until there's nothing left
334-shout at it
335-Blow it up
I can't think of any more, any suggestions?