Fragrance of whale! Smell from the mighty Humberston creature is reminder of its sad demise

A DFDS cargo vessel passes the body of the stranded whale

                                              

FORGET candy floss and fish 'n' chips, the  smell that wafted over Cleethorpes and Humberston for part of  Easter weekend was that of rotting blubber!

The body of the sperm whale that washed up - dead sadly - on the beach at Humberston earlier this month is now in advanced state of decomposition.

The smell was evidently being carried on the stiff south-easterly breezes. 

Gulls can detect decaying matter from many mile away, and they have been arriving to feast  on the blubber of the poor creature which is about two miles out from Humberston Fitties.

Recent high tides do not seem to have shifted the whale and it remains in the same place that it was washed up.

How long before only its skeleton remains? 

The birds in flight are thought to be starlings but they were no showing interest in the prospect of an easy meal . . .

By contrast, gulls have been banqueting on the sperm whale's remains