Rare Fin Whale Washes Up at Fort Funston — the Fifth Dead Whale Recorded Around Bay Area in Less Than a Month
There are just an estimated 3,200 fin whales in the waters off of California, Oregon, and Washington. Friday, one of them was found lifeless along the beach at Fort Funston — having likely died from a boat strike.
Between a "Super Cyclone" (that was hinted as the Bay Area's best chance to get out of drought conditions) and an increasing number of dead whales washing ashore around San Francisco, it's a worrying sign of the hellacious times we’re in. The past 26 days have seen the corpses of at least four gray whales appear along Bay Area beaches in an almost unheard-of frequency.