There's a whale there's a whale, there's a whale fish he cried

Whoa! My first real whale to be viewed in the wild.

Unfortunately for the whale,
it was a dead beached whale which I viewed.

Still cool.

I touched it with my sandal and it was very squishy.

The whale guts were to be found a various locations on the beach; probably from the rising tide.


According to the surf rider blog, tis a juvenile gray whale.

Several cubes of skin were missing that were about 3 inches deep, as well as a large section of top layers of blubber. Probably taken to biopsy and determine why it had died. The whale brought a great white shark to the surf line to check it out.

I wish I could have seen it alive.

I will check up on it next week to see if it is still there. If you go, I recommend a smell guard of some sort, as it definitely smells like dead whale in the beach.