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We woke to hear that crowds had converged on a beached dead whale in front of the car park at Zinkwazi.  Meat was being hacked from it by locals by the bucket load and taken away to eat.  I understand that it was a juvenile humped back whale that was washed up after dying at sea.  From the marks on its body, it appears it was slashed across the belly by the propellers of a ship.  The beach manager had phoned for emergency services Ballito who were to assist with moving the approximately 5 tonne carcass up the beach where its remains would rot, as there was no way of dragging it out to sea to be disposed of, which would have been preferable.  The folk stripping flesh off the whale were making the task of moving this easier.  As it turned out, when the high tide came in a few hours later, what was left of the carcass had been washed back  into the sea to float for a little while longer until it once more washed up onto the beach.

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