We had either discovered the dead whale, or someone had lost a shitload of silly putty.
This girl was the bravest person at the beach. She ran to within a dozen feet of the whale, chirping slurs at it in dolphin.
One of almost a dozen surfers to almost hit the whale, Ahab had a special motivation to avoid contact.
Birds are bastards. Proof? This one was pecking at the whale and he wasn't even hungry.
"....and you just know it tastes salty too. Ha!"
Surfer 2: Has the horizon always been slanted like that? I need to lay off the coke before surfing.
Naked Man: Don't worry. I used to watch that 'Crocodile Hunter' show all the time, and nothing bad ever happened to him.
This man was clearly taunting the poor creature. Everyone knows that sperm whales dream of one day being Pelé.
"Ramp?"
Sir Brillianton returns to land a different man. He has touched a whale, fought the tide, and caught a disease which will turn his offspring into adorable mutant flipper babies.
HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!
Sally Struts enters the fight.
The tide turned the whale violently enough that the tail whipped around the air, swatting at imaginary flies.
Families turned out for a nice bit of rotting whale corpse theater.
The naked homeless man loved whales. Loved em.
Surfer 1: That naked guy sure is running from the whale real fast.
Surfer 2: Totally.
Surfer 1: Gnarly.
Surfer 2: Tubular.
Surfer 1: Radical.
Surfer 2: Gnarly.
Surfer 1: I already said gnarly.
Surfer 2: Bummer. Let's go in the water already.