It's Frisco's Whale baby!

Pacifica buries the Whale & the Stank....

A couple months ago, my ole’ man & me, were watching the daytime local news on a day we were both off. We sat there listening to the story of the whale "situation" a couple miles south of us, in Pacifica and really just shook our heads.

The whale washed up in the summer on the beach opposite Sharp Park Golf Course, west of the 16th hole. The golf course is located in Pacifica, but the property belongs to San Francisco. A dispute has arisen between the city of Pacifica and San Francisco, which owns the golf course, as to who should be responsible for disposing of the rotting flesh which, residents say, has been there for several months. All that time, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department has received calls about the whale. So apparently Wednesday, the department at last decided to dispatch two staffers to Sharp Park for an official surveying party to figure out which city was on the hook for the whale and its possible removal.

Officials in Pacifica said they had known all along it wasn't their whale. Public Works Director Van Ocampo said Pacifica would be glad to bury San Francisco's whale and send San Francisco a bill for the undertaking. "It's their property," he said. Pacifica beachcomber Brenda McManus, who has strolled past the whale dozens of times since it washed up, gazed at the dead creature and the ocean beyond and said she did not understand why the whale needed to be surveyed, because it was located right there. But sometimes a stinky situation is worst than a sticky one in which you have won. So the city of Pacifica decided enough was enough and buried a carcass that washed up on a beach seven months ago, even though S.F. staffers determined it was their problem.

Katarina Camber snaps a picture of a whale carcass on the beach across from Sharp Park Golf Course in Pacifica on Wednesday. Stanky shot!

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