RAINSFORD ISLAND – The largest piece of floatsam in Boston Harbor, a 55-foot-long finback whale, came to rest Tuesday on a stretch of sharp, slippery rocks on the southwest corner of Rainsford Island, near the tip of Hull. This may or may not be the final resting place of the only whale to die in Boston Harbor in at least a generation or two.
Once there, with its first chance to dry out in the air, it did what dead whales do as well as anything – it let off a stink that could be bottled and used as a weapon.
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I love how Billy deals with all the flora and fauna stories he gets assigned, including this one and the one about Zeke the rogue turtle.
boatwrote, why don't you take Billy out and show him all this; you obviously know your stuff and I imagine BB would be a quick study.