Santa Cruz, California: Blue Whale Skeleton
Outside the Discovery Center, a complete, reconstructed 87-ft long blue whale skeleton from a carcass washed up on a nearby beach.
Seymour Marine Discovery Center
- Address:
- 100 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz, CA
- Directions:
- Seymour Marine Discovery Center, west of Santa Cruz. US Hwy 1 west to Swift St. south, then right on Delaware Ave to McCallister Way and Center entrance.
- Phone:
- 831-459-3800
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
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Blue Whale Skeleton This female blue whale was 87-ft long when she washed up dead on a beach about 30 miles north in 1979. Scientists from the Long Marine Lab quickly stripped the flesh and disassembled the bones. The whale skeleton was reconstructed -- a few bones lost in the tide or nabbed by souvenir collectors, but pretty much all here.
The whale is displayed outdoors, next to the parking lot of the Seymour Marine Discovery Center. We're accustomed to seeing parking lot dinosaur skeletons (fake!), but this skeleton whale is huge, and authentic.
[RoadsideAmerica.com Team, 04/28/2011]Nearby Offbeat Places
- Surfing Museum - Shark Bite Board, Santa Cruz, CA - 2 mi.
- Dead Surfers Memorial, Santa Cruz, CA - 2 mi.
- Surfing Monument, Santa Cruz, CA - 2 mi.
- In the region: Steinbeck's Spirit of Monterey Wax Museum, Monterey, CA - 25 mi.
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