whale at hillarys
Submitted by wadetolley on Thu, 2008-09-18 14:59
Just got back from watching them lift the whale down at hillarys...it smells so bad....when they lifted it up..a horrible smell wind blasted everyone...i have never seen 100 people dry reach at once before...was a crack up!
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LOL Wade
Wouldn't have liked to be the one to put those straps on.
How were they going to dispose of it? Do you know?
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Look at those suits running to get away
Please say they dropped it over near the Lighthouse.
Good pic Wade by the way.
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Don't eat
the fish fillet burgers at HJ's for a couple of months.
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Whale
They had a semi tipper there to load it into...then someone said it was off to land fill
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I can imagine their would have been a convoy
of seagulls following the semi.
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seagulls
It smelt that bad, when we got home we had to have a shower, and wash our clothes....as the smell went right threw us! I think the seagulls were sticking to there chips today for sure
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By the sound of it the restaurants and cafe at the Hillarys
Marina would have lost a few customers.
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God
I'm glad I wasn't there, I been doing my nick name for sure, shame it died but thats nature at its cruelist and also kindest, anybody going to the tip for some blubber for oil?
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How come the Japanese didnt
How come the Japanese didnt want that one for so called scientific research .CHEERS SHAG
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Can
you imagine being stuck in traffic behind the truck, so on perthnow, poor whales tail hanging over back of tipper and a 4x4 behind it, OMG apart from the smell what about what ever flew off in the wind splat on the wind screen phewie phewie be worse than somebody letting of wind in your car with the windows up.
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whale lifting
i remember the day well (just saw this photo in the random pics) i got the call at 6 am from the boss of joondalup city council he said "ryan ive got a problem at hillarys i need you to take care of" little did i know i'd be there till 7.oo that night co ordinating the crane lift!!! it pissed down all day too!! it was interesting getting the 250 tonne crane down onto the beach after we demolished a sand dune with a big front end loader! what a day. (and for anyone interested the whale weighed 27.6 tonnes) cheers