Originally Posted by
rumrunn6
we have dead seals on our beach hikes, one year I brought home a skull and buried it. a few months later I dug it up but the skull was still intact. I had to crack it and clean it out. I never did reassemble it completely. tequila and beer was required for the cleaning. my best friend help with encouragement and ice
In terms of smell, I would say that the worst "road kill" I've ever experienced was a dead elephant seal (these things are huge, basically walrus-sized) that was washed up onto the beach - this was near Watsonville, CA, which is on the northern side of Monterey Bay, not too far south of Santa Cruz.
I don't know how long it had been there, but the stench was horrendous.