A whale washed up on the beach just south of Hillarys Boat Harbour on Wednesday. I was sitting around killing time until work when Chris sent me a text about it, so I took a drive up the coast to meet up with him, and we had a lovely day out watching council workers lift an enormous rotting carcass into the back of a truck. It’s certainly not something you see (or smell) every day.
The next day at work I was buying the paper on my lunch break and noticed that the event made the front page, with a typically pessimistic headline complaing about how it cost the City of Joondalup $50, 000 to remove. That’s our wacky West Australian, always preferring to leave putrid rotting corpses on our beaches rather than dish out the removal fee!
I have to admit, though, fifty grand does seem pretty steep. They should have just left it for about twelve hours so it floated further down the coast and became the City of Stirling’s problem.
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September 21, 2008 at 7:42 am
Smiley
You could get enough dynamite to make whaleshakes for a lot less than $50,000.
September 21, 2008 at 3:31 pm
grubstreethack
That certainly would have been a lot more entertaining.
September 22, 2008 at 6:40 pm
chris
do one about your hair cut! :D
September 22, 2008 at 10:56 pm
grubstreethack
No! :D
September 23, 2008 at 2:42 pm
chris
:( :D