Fire crews remain at the scene of the gutted bach on Boulder Bank, an "architecturally significant" building believed to have been built in the 1890s.
Fire crews remain at the scene of the gutted bach on Boulder Bank, an "architecturally significant" building believed to have been built in the 1890s.
She said the whale fluke was “well decomposed” and “because the extent of decomposition, we can’t determine what species it is”. “Our rangers are towing it away but we are still determining where we will take it. It’s too big and it’s condition too poor to lift it out of the water. “We don t know where the rest of the remains are.”
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The whale fluke floating in Nelson Harbour prompted a warning by the habourmaster. Grant said DOC rangers had towed the tail to the outer side of the Boulder Bank and it was being tethered to further decompose naturally in the tidal zone.