Hi there again, Pentaxians

Thursday I went straight from having put the kids to bed, to a location not many kilometres from home (Andenes) to photograph a Sperm Whale that had just drifted to shore.
There`s an eldorado of whales of many kinds right outside our island, because of some archeological co-indincidence that causes the depth of the sea to drop from around hundred, to around 3500 meters.


Note; only male Sperm Whales comes to the arctic areas.
The females are better off in warmer areas :
Sperm whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From time to time, unfortunately whales die in this area of unknown reasons. Sometimes just natural due to age or illness. There are many scientists here, that have base at the local tourist attraction:
Velkommen til Hvalsafari

They now have an international project to collect tissues from the whales to analyze for environmental, marine pollutants.


Anyway, here are some of my results after seeing this giant of a mammal.
Around 14meters long and approx. 30-35 years of age.
It had been dead for around 4 days when it drifted to shore. All of this info is from the whale experts.



Sperm Whale | Flickr - Photo Sharing!


Sperm Whale | Flickr - Photo Sharing!


Sperm Whale | Flickr - Photo Sharing!


Sperm Whale | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
(The picture above is taken with Lensbaby Muse attached to my K20d)


Sperm Whale | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
(in the right side on this picture you see something floating on the side of the whale... Well that`s a body part "a bit" bigger than humans have when WE reproduce


Sperm Whale | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Yup, that`s me. I call this picture "Self portrait in whale".



Sperm Whale | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

& the last one:

Kval-2 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!


More pictures are found on my Flickr photostream, for those interested
Flickr: Larsenio's Photostream


Thanks for stopping by, cheers and have a (still) great weekend.
I`m off to some friends of me and my wife, for some beer & buzz, see you

[dcmsox2004]

now this is something not seen before here....what a majestic creature.... circle of life..
made famous from moby dick.... thanks for sharing... dave m

[Larsenio]

now this is something not seen before here....what a majestic creature.... circle of life..
made famous from moby dick.... thanks for sharing... dave m

Thank you, Dave M

It was a majestic sight, I can tell you that...
This is the fourth dead, stranded Sperm Whale I`ve seen in my lifetime, and I`m so glad I got the chance to see him so close and -in a way- honour him with my photos of him.