beached whale.

Today, we received a call that there was a beached Pygmy Sperm Whale a few hundred yards down the beach. I was on house keeping when we received the call, so we immediately grabbed buckets and ran down the beach to join the effort. We started hauling water from the estuary onto the whale and kept passing water until NOAA arrived at the scene.

By the time they got there (about 1 and 1/2 later), the whale was bleeding quite heavily and there was really no chance of survival. So we watched the team take samples and treat the whale, until finally they put it out of suffering and carried it away in their truck. It was a pretty sad end to a great effort to rescue the whale. It was so cool how people just started to come out and help and we were all working for the same cause because we all had hope that the whale would survive. Even though the whale didn't make it, it was a cool experience to be a witness to the event. It made me think about possibly getting involved in a team like that later on.