after a long nap in a plywood mobile home, we tandem biked to see more blue whale bones at the long marine lab. there was one full sized blue whale erected as sculpture and a baby sized one as well. earlier that day, my brother sent me a picture text of the beached blue whale that expelled its own baby after a few days of bloating and decomposition at bean hollow. when i had dinner with him tonight, he said i should be glad that i did not see it as he will never forget the smell of dead whale: sweet egg rotten seaweed blubber.
it is the first blue whale to wash up in thirty years. they say that the heart is the size and weight of a vw beatle. you can watch real time necropsy videos of this whale on youtube:
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