It is good that
it ended yesterday, finally, after what must have been an ungodly painful stretch of time. The whale was a Bryde’s, and it washed up in Totten Inlet, where it had been swimming for the past week or so after sustaining the injury that would eventually prove fatal. Accidents happen, I suppose, but it seems unfair regardless.
I hope the boat, or ship, or whatever it was that did the deed, at least got a dent.