A hapless half a whale was towed away from Seahurst Park beach up near us today. I never heard it but the crows and gulls who rob our sparrow feeder went AWOL and that is good.

I never heard any noise or saw any super tugboat as I was sunning myself so I can only guess that the oily birds got the wormy fish for lunch. Maybe they will escape with a beak full.

If I find chunks of whale belly on my roof I will know how it got there and call Burien city hall to belly ache.

They blew up a whale once near Florence, Oregon. It stank up the whole community and they did a lot of belly aching then as large pieces of the whale carcass landed on people and cars up to a 1/4 mile away from the blast. It was such poor execution the tractors still had to bury the poor thing in the sand anyway. At least Burien leaders know what "not" to do.

I wanted to see the 5000 gawkers watching today but the Burien half a whale was dragged half a way to nowhere. The intent was to let it decay on a remote beach. I think they should just fill it with rocks and sink it. No stink.
A few years ago a full grown dead whale washed up on the beach near White Center and they thought about dragging it to deep water, securing it to the bottom and letting hungry salt water creatures eat it away.

Instead, Highline college leaders, led by President Jack Bermingham had it buried for several months where worms and other dirty little creatures could devour it. Then they dug it up and brought it home to Redondo at the college science lab. The bones still had quite a bit of flesh requiring student volunteers to scrape and remove the stinky residue. Now the skeleton hangs from the ceiling at the MAST aquarium next to Salty's. Nobody has blubbered about that.

I was impressed by how the Highline college students spent a jillion hours at the tedious task of stripping that smelly carcass. Sounds like real fun.