With the price of oil these days...

Another whale of a tale this episode. This is a juvenille fin whale I've been told. Apparently you can identify a fin whale from the fact that it's right underside is white and it's left underside is black. You can clearly see the large tongue and balene in the beginning of the video with what I thought was a tiny lateral fin and then the powerful tail and ending with the belly of corduroy which allows for the huge gulps of water and the subsequent sifting of food through the balene. Not too sure about the cause of death here, but it certainly wasn't old age. The whale was very recently deceased as you can tell from the state of decay. I was amazed at how the skin was so thin and generally when the whales show up, it's the first thing to really fall off. It isn't really captured in the video, but there was oil leaking from the skin of the whale and literally melting off of the skin. Anyhoo, another cool experience living at the edge of the world.