paints_cats t1_irs3qh2 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 4:48 PM

I saw a dead humpback whale calf on Ruby Beach almost exactly 4 years ago... my group also commented that it wasn't smelly at all, until we were slightly downwind of it. Then it was... quite smelly.

danskiez t1_iruzj4n wrote on October 11, 2022 at 6:25 AM

I saw a dead beached whale in SoCal probably almost 10 years ago now. We didn’t stay long because of the smell. Omg that was horrendous. And there were people in the water with the whale so they could touch it I guess. I imagine the smell seeped into their clothes too. (It was a beached whale but it was high tide so it was about 5’ from where the water stopped. )