Tory,
I’m sure you’ve heard about the right whale they found yesterday. I just wanted to warn some of your readers and customers about the potential dangers associated with this.
I read about it on the first coast news website. I am not completely sure, but it did mention in one of the blog comments at the bottom of the article, that the people doing the clean up dissected the carcass on the beach and shipped the skeleton up to some lab in Georgia. And it eluded to the fact that they buried the rest of the body on Crescent Beach! This will probably become a very hot spot for sharks in the near future.
I used to live in California between 1994 and 2000. A grey whale washed up near Old Man’s at San Onofre, and they did they same thing with the carcass. Soon after they started having Great White sightings in the Trail One area of the San Onofre Campground. I read an article that some surfers were scared out of the water when a shark came really close to them. I don’t believe that anyone was ever attacked, but they are still there. There was a video last year of a guy on his paddle board putting a stick under the water and videoing some baby great whites at San O! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPOBeXD91fI
The article said that the mother is raising the two juvenile sharks in the area near the nuclear plant at San O. But they believe that the scent of the dead whale brought them to that area.
So I am just concerned that the same thing could happen here at Crescent Beach. Probably not Great Whites but there are plenty of other types of sharks in our waters. So beware!
I just wish they would have disposed of the body somewhere else.
Later
Bean
