A whale on the beach
So, this morning when walking up to the car to drive our son to the child daycare center (we had to go to work) we bumped into our neighbour who as he said so himself was “on his way to check out this whale on the beach”. I live in Scheveningen, the coolest beach village in the Netherlands. Since we’re at a beach it rarely happends that special animals wash ashore. In my opinion it’s always a sad happening but i was very curious about the whale itself. How big would it be? Would it be decomposing (you always hear those stories about whales blowing up because of the gas buildup inside)?
So, we got there. There was a very fishy smell and the whale looked kind of real. Since we didn’t have anything to compare to (it was our first dead whale on the beach moment) we figured it was probably real.
Back at the office, Marloes started searching online and as it turned out, the whale was an art project from some Belgium guy who wanted to see how many people would think it would be real. A little to morbid for my taste.
You can check out some more pictures at my flickr account.
thanks for posting this – I wasn’t sure myself, especially because of the fishy smell. It almost had me convinced, except for the mouth
Yeah, us too. The mouth looked really strange (with those weird teeth holes). Supposedly they rubbed the whole thing in leftovers from the visafslag, hence the smell