Washed up whale on JBay beach swims away

NSRI Jeffreys Bay duty volunteers hastened to Paradise Beach this morning after reports that an adult whale had beached there.

NSRI St Francis Bay volunteer  duty crew were also alerted to assist in either getting the alive whale back into the sea or maybe having to assist with a dead carcass removal.

While waiting at the NSRI St Francis Bay base Marc May, stationer commander for NSRI St Francis Bay, says they were advised that when their NSRI counterparts in JBay arrived at Paradise Beach the whale had already managed to get back in the sea unassisted and had swum away.

Witnesses had seen it on the beach and watched it swim away later. It is unknown what kind of whale it was.

May believes the whale could have gone onto the beach to have her calf there and then had swum away with it.

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