When I heard that a blue whale had washed up onto a beach about 40 minutes from us near Pescadero, I knew I had to go and check it out. It was incredible. It was about 80 feet long. It was injured by a boat. It was pregnant when it died, so you could see the baby whale (in the last picture it is the long white thing you see to the left of the mom). The kids thought it was fascinating, especially Jack who could have stayed and studied it for hours. Due to the awful smell, I limited it to about 15 minutes before we headed to the other end of the beach. Now I can imagine that Jonah really was swallowed by a whale. Before seeing this incredible mammal, that story seemed a little "fishy."
4 comments:
That's crazy crazy, that smell must have been really bad, because I don't think I could have pulled away from that scene. Even on your blog I stared at those pictures way too long!
That wasn't what I was expecting. I bet it was amazing!
Wow - that is really sad and crazy. I didn't know you did that! For some reason it makes me so sad to think of that pregnant whale dying.
The Stanford game looked fun! Thanks for the pictures. The kids are darling, the whale--not so much! But very interesting!
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