A popular beach on the Washington coast became home to a dead gray whale, and the state moved quickly to bury the carcass before scores of clam diggers were to arrive just two days later. The 38-foot female was the third whale to wash up in the area in recent years. In the report linked below, the reporter makes explicit mention of Oregon’s Exploding Whale: “I think it’s the best thing they can do, unless they can take it out there and let the fish eat it or whatever,” she said. That’s wouldn’t work; it would just come back with the tide. And everyone knows that blowing it up is a lousy idea. They tried that, with disastrous results some years back in Florence, Oregon. Media links: Article:  ‘The most horrible smell you’ve smelled’: Dead whale washes ashore   – KOMO News Video:  ‘The most horrible smell you’ve smelled’: Dead whale washes ashore   – KOMO News Archived copy of the video from the Exploding Whale video portal on YouTube: