Death on the Beach

I found one piece of Australian newspaper at the Domestic Airport. One article absorbed me fully. It is an amazing fact that at some point so many whales decide to gather together and start mass beaching. There is a big picture on the page number 3 presenting this spectacular “show”. You can’t miss it. The photo was taken on King Island, northwest of another bigger island under Australia =Tasmania. It happened on last Sunday on the beach called Naracoopa.

It is hard to believe it for me that all those old whales didn’t know what low-tide is about. It looks nothing else but well-planned group suicide.

At the time of captain Phillip all Aborigines would be very happy. They all were of very skinny posture, on the constant starving mode. Suddenly a big piece of meat has just landed on their coast : ). Only White People push them back to the sea.

I wonder what kind of sacrifice is that. Maybe they try to come back to the land. The decision of their old ancestor to evolve from land mammals into marine ones might awake still some kind of nostalgia in them?

PS.
Air “whales” are the same - without finding a good airport lane we would all beach and die : ) Thanks God I am back to Sydney ground already.

Source: The Australian, “More than 140 whales die in mass beaching”, page 3, 03.07.2009.

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