Closer, closer, yep, that dead whale's still on the beach

By adamg on Fri, 10/12/2012 - 10:42pm

Noah Sachs forwards a link to these photos, taken by his friend Lars, who was out on the harbor today and took a series of shots as they got closer to that poor dead whale that's still just lying on the shore of a harbor island.

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For all that is holy

By Kaz on Sat, 10/13/2012 - 1:29am.

Please, just don't blow it up with explosives...

Hmmmm....

By GoBruins on Sat, 10/13/2012 - 11:03am.

Explosives,you say? Might have to pull on my flame-retardant pants and reconnoiter that beach.

What happens when you use explosives

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 10/13/2012 - 11:49am.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_whale

My dad worked with guys in the state highway department who were relocated to Eastern Oregon after this fiasco. Like being sent to Siberia ... oops.

Why?

By Yukon Man on Sat, 10/13/2012 - 10:28am.

aren't the coyotes and rats eating this thing?

Harbor Islands

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 10/13/2012 - 11:50am.

They are kept free of such "recyclers".

Norway Rats

By Ed Rowe on Sat, 10/13/2012 - 12:53pm.

are on the majority of the Harbor Islands, including Georges, where the whale has beached, and rampant on some. Coyote are on a few Islands but not on Georges, at least not regularly.

True, Rat

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 10/13/2012 - 9:28pm.

The population is usually limited by the lack of food in the winter ...

Going to be a big rat year, I guess.

Have you ever been on the Outer Islands?

By anon on Sat, 10/13/2012 - 6:16pm.

Rats abound and probably have since wary shipwrecks.
My friends canoed overnight on one if the outer islands years ago and there campsite was literally overrun by the vermin.