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Because of the transition, I couldn't write about our beached whale! Being from Northeast Nebraska, which is not very far from the Point of Inaccessibility (the point farthest from seawater in North America) and having a longstanding interest in things related to biology, I was excited when I heard a whale had gotten stranded near us! It was a 16-meter-long juvenile fin whale. One couldn't quite tell from social media where it was located, so Mary Beth and I decided to run along the coast until we reached it, which was about 6 km (4 miles) away from where we parked the car. I don't think we would have kept going if it had been much further away!
Two days later the municipality buried it due to concerns it might start to stink. I'm not sure who it would have offended, since it was on the nature preserve! I thought they should have at least rendered it into whale oil, but I read online that whale oil is illegal to sell, so there went that great idea.
