I had reservations about posting this, but, there may be people out there keeping track of things like this as we don't have much of a news reporting
source in and around San Felipe (and that isn't necessarily a bad thing).
This picture was taken at about KM64 south of San Felipe and a few miles north of Puertecitos.
It sure was sad seeing such a big thing like this whale totally out of the water.
What kind? Someone knows. Blue?
pangamadness - 3-27-2006 at 10:18 PM
capt. mike - 3-28-2006 at 06:07 AM
i can smell that from here............................
they need to get about a zillion M 80s and blow it to smithereens.Bob and Susan - 3-28-2006 at 06:24 AM
you won't be walkin around that thing in a couple of days...pUDavid K - 3-28-2006 at 07:34 AM
Who has the link to that beached dead whale being blown up (with too much dynamite) in Oregon (I think)?Don Alley - 3-28-2006 at 07:40 AM
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Originally posted by David K
Who has the link to that beached dead whale being blown up (with too much dynamite) in Oregon (I think)?
There are many links, but the famous 1970 event even has its own website:
The friend who told me about it said he thought it might be a Fin Wahle? He soes ecological ocean tours in Alaska and knows much more about them than
I do.Tomas Tierra - 3-28-2006 at 08:42 AM
Looks like a Humpback to me. Hard to tell as the pectoral fins are gone..
Definately been dead a while...Tomas Tierra - 3-28-2006 at 09:12 AM
On further review..
small pectoral fin visible..not a humpy. fin whale sounds right.
Pobrecita la Ballena
[Edited on 3-30-2006 by Tomas Tierra]Taco de Baja - 3-28-2006 at 09:33 AM
It's definitively a member of the rorqual (baleen) family based on the ventral grooves. This group includes: the Blue, Humpback, fin, Bryde's, Sei,
and Minke whales.
My guess would be Blue.
It's at the northern range for the Byrd's so that?s probably out...It's a little small for a Sei or the Minke. Fin Whales prefer the open ocean to
narrow bodies of water like the Sea of Cortez. Humpbacks, in addition to having long pectoral fins (the pecs seem to only be partially visible - not
enought to see if they are long or short) have bumpy growths on their heads and lower jaws, which are actually hair follicles - I don't see those. Of
course, the photos is kind of fuzzy in that area.
The people in the photo must have lost their sense of smell though, that whale probably stinks to high heaven.
[Edited on 3-28-2006 by Taco de Baja]bajalou - 3-28-2006 at 09:43 AM
With the wind from the North, you could aproach with very little odor from that direction - to the South (tail) it got kind of ripe.Diver - 3-28-2006 at 09:45 AM
Mike,
Did you ever see the film of the whale they blew up on the beach in Oregon ?? Tire sized chunks of whale blew all over, denting cars and making people
run for their lives as they rained down from over a hundred feet up !
That just made the stink worse and it took them a week to clean up all the pieces !! YUK!!!David K - 3-28-2006 at 09:47 AM
A whale, and often dolphins have washed up on Shell Island... Fotunately a mile from where I camp... Yes, the smell is not something a perfume would
be patterend after!
yeah, diver, i saw
capt. mike - 3-28-2006 at 03:05 PM
that on one of those sat shows, real videos aand all that. hilarious.............they made it worse. crap landing on the people and cars etc, what a
hoot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that's what made me think of the M80s.
INCOMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Bob and Susan - 3-28-2006 at 03:12 PM
Capt. George - 3-28-2006 at 04:17 PM
Are they better on maiez or harina tortillas??
Maybe on my way north, I have a chain saw.....
capt gBAJACAT - 3-29-2006 at 12:38 AM
you can make alot off cevichebbbait - 3-29-2006 at 04:50 AM
Maybe the Neutrino's will use it, they're still close by....wornout - 3-29-2006 at 08:56 PM
Two more pictures to help identifywornout - 3-29-2006 at 08:57 PM
Here is two of twoTomas Tierra - 3-29-2006 at 09:28 PM
Wornout..
Nice close shot!
How did you get the "film" off the camera??wornout - 3-30-2006 at 08:26 AM
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Wornout..
Nice close shot!
How did you get the "film" off the camera??
Fabulosa of course.Taco de Baja - 3-30-2006 at 08:36 AM
Based on the relatively small pectoral fin, it's not a Humpback. Hupbacks have long pertoral fins in relation to their body.
I'd still go with Blue.
