There's a dead whale on the beach in Seaside, Oregon. Let's go see it!

We drove south on
US Route 101 to Seaside.

Channel 8 KGW sent news

trucks to cover the dead whale

that washed up on the beach in

Seaside Tuesday, April 15, 2014.

Our first glimpse of

the Gray Whale.

It's not gray.

It's kind of peach colored
with gray blotches.






The marine biologist found the whale had been dead for a while before it washed up on the beach because of its state of decomposition.

A chunk of blubber, about

one foot square was removed

to test pollution levels in

the dead whale.

The whale is measured
for length - 12.7 meters
or 41.667 feet.

The marine biologist makes

observations & an assistant

records them.

I talked to people milling

around the whale.  

Some watched it wash

ashore Tuesday morning.