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Last weekend I was doing a little thinking....

The local cray fisherman should tow the whale out beyond the reef and charge people/tourists to watch the sharks nibble at it.

If it was physically possible to move the whale back into the water with a couple of front end loaders then everyone would win. The whale gets eaten within a month, cray fisherman get some extra coin and interested people get to see sharks munching a whale up close while drinking a beer on the deck of a cray boat.

Good Idea, I asked George in Jurien about that, apparantly they cant tow it, they would need a tug or something big, also would have to spear it with air.

Or - the army could use it for target practice. They could tow it right out the front of the bombing range and blow the f out of it.

On a serious note why dont they bury it in the dunes. Thats what they did in mindarie last December.

Leave the thing , why does every do gooder think some sort of human intervention is needed. The coastal creatures need replenishment, like a good dose of fertiliser.
Now get on your surf board and learn to enjoy the smell of the roses / dead whale.

Perthy crew love to strip the ABS rape the ocean yet remove the food to feed them ,long live cottasloe/maindarie. etc etc etc?

Super-Stu said...

Good Idea, I asked George in Jurien about that, apparantly they cant tow it, they would need a tug or something big, also would have to spear it with air.

Or - the army could use it for target practice. They could tow it right out the front of the bombing range and blow the f out of it.

On a serious note why dont they bury it in the dunes. Thats what they did in mindarie last December.

Burying a 22m whale is slightly more difficult than a 9m whale...

Cassa said...

Get a rod and some heavy braid and fish the night away

Just gouge out big chunks, chuck them on a butchers hook, tow them out with a boat and use a winch to bring the catch in.

I am very surprised at peoples response to Stu's expression of interest to have the whale removed. People will venture out into the water, people will be eaten by sharks..... if it is not removed! Do you rememer that movie called Jaws, kind of like that. The sharks are there, they wait patiently for you to tread water, then they come up and eat. Do you understand me!

A couple of points re comments above.

They can move then whale, and probably best done before it breaks down. Your right in thinking it might have to be cut in half. So be it. But a front end loader could easily take care of the towing and digging.

Pretty soon the skin on the whale will break or it will explode will all the gas building inside and then it will really stink. The people of Wedge (some 200 or more people) who live there will have to live in this stink for many many months. I know Phil was dry reaching when he copt a wiff of the whale in cot and he was 200m away. This whale is probably 100m away for the houses in wedge and in a direct WSW air direction. So all those disease covered flies will be landing on their food and faces. Not very healthy.

There are a lot of tourist going there every week end. In-fact there are move tourist and day trippers to wedge than people living there truth be known probably even double.

To the wierdo or saying leave it and suggesting its tampering with nature. Your obviously ignorant to the health implications and duty of care implications to the public. This is not a deserted beach, people live here and visit everyday. Its the equivalant to a dead whale at coronation beach, you cant really sugest leaving a whale at corros? Im sure all the people of wedge will let you take the whale and dump it out the front of your house.

Im waiting on some more news from D.E.C. so wil keep you posted.

Hah hahahaa aha

I dont live in cottesloe dude, far from it.

You have made your point no need to get nasty. All I said was you were ignorant to the issues.

So you want the whale to stay - Thanks for the comment. Good on ya.

Super-Stu said...

A couple of points re comments above.

They can move then whale, and probably best done before it breaks down. Your right in thinking it might have to be cut in half. So be it. But a front end loader could easily take care of the towing and digging.

Pretty soon the skin on the whale will break or it will explode will all the gas building inside and then it will really stink. The people of Wedge (some 200 or more people) who live there will have to live in this stink for many many months. I know Phil was dry reaching when he copt a wiff of the whale in cot and he was 200m away. This whale is probably 100m away for the houses in wedge and in a direct WSW air direction. So all those disease covered flies will be landing on their food and faces. Not very healthy.

There are a lot of tourist going there every week end. In-fact there are move tourist and day trippers to wedge than people living there truth be known probably even double.

To the wierdo or saying leave it and suggesting its tampering with nature. Your obviously ignorant to the health implications and duty of care implications to the public. This is not a deserted beach, people live here and visit everyday. Its the equivalant to a dead whale at coronation beach, you cant really sugest leaving a whale at corros? Im sure all the people of wedge will let you take the whale and dump it out the front of your house.

Im waiting on some more news from D.E.C. so wil keep you posted.

S/Stu I agree with what you say here & I think kotp needs to wake up, it will take alot to get rid of the whale in a natural way, I dont think a storm will move it in the way that u think. Dig a big hole with a front end loader and push it into the hole, its the only way. Only prob is how far away from the beach do you take it?
It aint gonna be easy!!

I say, I didn't realise that the outdoors would be so smelly. Maybe we should have stayed in Claremont for the weekend?

Toughen up princess

I dont think that you could do it in one hit maybe 3-4 trips, 2 tons I think.

So 3 chops. spew... yuck..
No surf this week anyway so not missing out on anything yet.

Ambergris

if not for a solid wind i would not have been able to stand like this. walking downwind to retrieve a rib bone i was hit by a wall of smell that was like being next to a speaker at a kiss concert, it smashed my senses and stupified my brain, since then anything dead and rotting smells like hundreds of kilos of rotting whale......enjoy!

What about setting fire to it? Surely all that whale fat would burn for days reducing the thing to ash.