NSW:Whale carcass washes up at Sydney beach

AAP General News (Australia)
08-22-2011
NSW:Whale carcass washes up at Sydney beach

SYDNEY, Aug 22 AAP - A badly decomposed whale carcass has washed up at a northern Sydney beach.

The seven metre corpse, which is yet to become fully beached, is washing around in
the wave zone at Palm Beach, prompting shark fears.

"We have put up signs warning people they shouldn't really go in the water... because
whale carcasses have a tendency to attract sharks," Sally Williams from Pittwater Council
told ABC radio on Monday.

It's the second whale carcass to wash up on a northern Sydney beach in four months,
after a massive sperm whale corpse made a mess on Newport Beach in April.

Authorities are hoping high tide takes the carcass back out to sea. If not, the whale
will have to be cut up and trucked to a waste facility.

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