Dead whale now haunts the Ritz

posted by Barry Parr on Aug 26, 2005 at 03:00 pm in  Environment
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The deflated, stinking carcass of a dead humpback whale, which lay on a Half Moon Bay beach for nearly a week before being carted off to deeper water, is now in a rocky alcove just north of the Ritz, according to the Mercury News.

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Comment 1 by chuck  on  Aug 27  at  12:01am  •  All my comments • 

Interesting quote from a tourist on Channel 2 news: “I don’t think it’s sad, I think it’s dirty. People come here for the environment which is so clean …” Also complaints from business and lodge owners about the smell beng bad for business …

What do they think is going out there under the waves? Like there’s bathrooms and graveyards for the whales? This could only create pressure for CCWD to extend the El Granada pipeline project offshore, Maybe the extra capacity of the SAM plant could be used to sanitize the nearby ocean water so no one is offended.

chuck

Comment 2 by mal.comX  on  Aug 27  at  8:03am  •  All my comments • 

Chuck wrote: >This could only create pressure for CCWD to extend the El Granada pipeline project offshore…

Please don’t give them ideas like that. The empire builders at CCWD will go around claiming that if don’t build the damn thing, then all of our houses will be in danger of burning down in a fire.

Comment 3 by Barry Parr  on  Aug 27  at  10:48pm  •  All my comments • 

W.C. Fields understood that sentiment very well.

When asked why he didn’t drink water, he replied, “Because fish f*** in it.”


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