The whale story from a few days ago continues!
A whale carcass that washed up on Sydney’s eastern shore last week has re-emerged at Malabar, prompting Randwick Council to close the beach.
At least two large pieces of the decomposing whale were floating against the shore this morning, having been fenced off by the council late yesterday.
Randwick Council moved the carcass higher up on the beach out of the water and was arranging with contractors to properly dispose of the whale remains. […]
The young whale washed up at Lurline Bay just north of Maroubra Beach on Thursday last week. Council closed both Maroubra and Coogee beaches as a precaution on Thursday.
Council and the Indigenous ranger group Gamay Rangers responded to the carcass.
Senior ranger Rob Cooley said on Thursday their preference was to let nature take its course as the carcass was too hard to reach with machinery and was in an advanced state of decomposition.
Given that this whale was apparently first spotted at Manly before it ended up here, I’m feeling like nature’s in no hurry to deal with it. A couple more days and it’ll probably be in bits in Botany Bay and washing up at Kurnell…
