That's a quote from the movie "Life Aquatic" if you're not familiar with it. While driving around the northwest side of the island yesterday, checking on which plots contain birds this year, we ran into some birders who reported seeing a strange looking large carcass just down the beach. We noticed a smell driving by on the ATV track, but somehow missed it. So we went back to have a look. Walking down to the pile of blubber I was initially puzzled by the strange smooth vertebrae and huge size. Unfortunately the head was missing or tucked underneath, but based on its pinniped-like arm bones and what appeared to be a sacrum, it had to be a walrus and not a whale. Wave action must have knocked off the vertebral processes that should be present on a marine mammal spine. That was one big walrus.
Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM, ISO-320 f/16 @ 1/160 sec.
A wild snow mongoose. We thought they were extinct. Her ankle's broken.
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