Two Dead Whales in SC County

FYI
One on Pajaro Dunes Beach and one on Waddell Beach. You know what dead whales attract.  Be safe out there.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/environment-and-nature/20150423/authorities-investigate-two-dead-whales-off-santa-cruz-county-coast

You know what dead whales attract.

What might that be?  Loony tourists?

You know what dead whales attract.

What might that be?  Loony tourists?

  Although everyone knows they're all in hawaii right now so we're 100% safe!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!safe!!!!!

You know what dead whales attract.

What might that be?  Loony tourists?

  Although everyone knows they're all in hawaii right now so we're 100% safe!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!safe!!!!!

yeeeeah.....about that.......

What's up with all the dead whales?  Last week there was a sperm whale in Pacifica, then a killer whale up in Mendo, and now these two. 

I saw one in So. Hum. near shelter cove last week too.

Run for the hills....they are dying from cancer caused by the Fukushima disaster! Or perhaps they are beaching themselves to escape Godzilla heading our way.

Joking asides, I wonder if the whales are facing the same starvation problems that the sea lions are? Perhaps this a good sign of a normalizing population? Are the whale populations up and we are just starting to see a return to a normal mortality rate? Are these young or old animals dying? The ban on whaling started in the 80s?

The killer whale looked like an accident with the fishing equipment.

Was the killer whale area cordoned off and treated as a toxic spill site due to high levels of mercury? Or is that just done with the ones up North?

I blame common core...

I blame common core...

AMEN!  That's a subject that will fire me up hotter than the time Alex tried to rally us against the hostle takeover of his favorite organic popcorn vendor.

I blame common core...

AMEN!  That's a subject that will fire me up hotter than the time Alex tried to rally us against the hostle takeover of his favorite organic popcorn vendor.

 

I blame common core...

AMEN!  That's a subject that will fire me up hotter than the time Alex tried to rally us against the hostle takeover of his favorite organic popcorn vendor.

 

Joking asides, I wonder if the whales are facing the same starvation problems that the sea lions are? Perhaps this a good sign of a normalizing population? Are the whale populations up and we are just starting to see a return to a normal mortality rate? Are these young or old animals dying? The ban on whaling started in the 80s?

I read that the sperm whale was an older, malnourished male, so it may be....

...sorry, hadn't yet read the link. These gray whales both look to be younger animals, with their bodies exhibiting rake marks and their tongues missing, meaning orca predation.

The sperm whale I read about was washed up elsewhere.

Happens all the time. Usually people don't care unless the media gloms onto it. I've carved my initials in dozens of dead whales over the years...and never saw any of THOSE on the news.

I've carved my initials in dozens of dead whales over the years...

LOL!  So its been you all this time. Im telling Paul Watson