BajaNomad - Speaking of dead stuff on the beach

Speaking of dead stuff on the beach

fishuntr - 6-13-2007 at 07:19 PM

I read Paulina's hilarious post about dead whales on the beach, and it reminded me of something we saw on the beach a while back. I may have posted this on the old Amigos board, but anyway..We , that is my family have had a place on the Pacific side since 1980. It is about 3 miles South of San Antonio Del Mar. (Colonet area).

We walked down to the beach one morning and found a dead Mountain Lion washed up on the beach. He hadn't been dead for long as he wasn't decomposing yet. He was huge. I would guess his total length was over 8 feet nose to tip of tail. His body and feet were real big. This was a mature Lion. I couldn't find any marks or injuries on him. I don't have the slightest idea what happened, or how he got there. I'm sure we took photos, but I don't know what happened to them. Too bad we didn't have cellphone cameras. This was at least 20 years ago.

The area, even then, was mostly farming or cattle. The nearest mountainous terrain was miles to the East It is common to see dead stuff on the beach. Whales, SeaLions, lots of birds, but I never saw any Lions before or since.

pappy - 6-13-2007 at 07:46 PM

somewhat related-article this morning about a whale recently killed up alaska way.they found an old self-detonating projectile embedded in it's blubber-was from a whale gun they use to use a hundred years ago.they figured where it hit, it went off but didn't do too much damage. estimates of whale's age are 115-130 years old!

Osprey - 6-14-2007 at 07:15 AM

fishhunter, that was probably a sea lion

805gregg - 6-14-2007 at 08:00 AM

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somewhat related-article this morning about a whale recently killed up alaska way.they found an old self-detonating projectile embedded in it's blubber-was from a whale gun they use to use a hundred years ago.they figured where it hit, it went off but didn't do too much damage. estimates of whale's age are 115-130 years old!

Real smart they killed a 120 year old whale to study it?

wilderone - 6-14-2007 at 08:18 AM

It was killed by some Alaskan villagers who have permits (10 villages) to kill 255 over a 5-year period. The article stated that some whales could live 200 years.

Natalie Ann - 6-14-2007 at 08:53 AM

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Originally posted by Osprey
fishhunter, that was probably a sea lion

Skipjack Joe - 6-14-2007 at 02:45 PM

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Originally posted by Natalie Ann

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fishhunter, that was probably a sea lion

or a Black Panther.

mtgoat666 - 6-15-2007 at 08:06 AM

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Originally posted by fishuntr
We walked down to the beach one morning and found a dead Mountain Lion washed up on the beach.

cat probably got hit by a knucklehead illegally riding his/her ATV on the beach. I think the offender lives at that new Loreto megadevelopment.

shari - 6-15-2007 at 09:09 AM

speaking about strange things washed up...last year a dead pronghorn antelope washed up at the point here...very rare!

synch - 6-15-2007 at 09:10 AM

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A real whale or was this Pomapano?

[Edited on 6-15-2007 by synch]

motoged - 6-15-2007 at 10:24 AM

Flotsam and jetsom...

Hell, I've seen fat white mammals splayed all over the beaches of Baja....just laying there, or sometimes moving a flipper to grab another cool one....I believe they are likely from the gringous fattus fishermanous species or else the touristas annoyas species....didn't check them for imbedded ordinance but sometimes needed to borrow a lighter or gas.... :lol: