gray whale

We have a high school English class that learns about the folly of blowing up a dead whale; would love to know the town & when they blew one up in Mass. to compare to the Oregon fiascoes. I once found what must have been a whale (or other very large sea mammal) buried on our beach, being quickly consumed by flesh-eating maggots. Will have to post a video capture to identify the maggots. They were very efficient, and were themselves no doubt fish food within a tide or two.

Oops, funny how you get into the "1900" typing habit... Clearly it was 2007. It is most likely a gray whale--they're pretty common on our coast. The joke is that they have actually dynamited a beached whale twice, once about 1907 or so and again in the 1960's. It takes about that long for people to forget that it's a REAL BAD IDEA. Just sprays rotten whale all over town, and the stink is significant. Usually they bury them in the sand.