From relics of the past, to bizarre animals,here are 14 crazy things found on
the beach.
14.
Animals In context, you might think it strange for
animals to wash up on a beach.
After all, there are plenty of creatures underneath the waves that are hungry and looking for
an easy meal.
But, there have been many interesting animals who have washed up on a beach that science
can't exactly explain.
One of the biggest ones (pun intended) are whales.
Think about it, how does a whale, which can weigh anywhere from 8,000 to 300,000 pounds,
just get washed up on a beach?
Is the tide really that strong?
Did they do it to themselves??
Many scientists aren't exactly sure how this happens.
Is it as simple as the current and tides grabbing them until they can't push them anymore?
Or is there something else going on?
Or how about squids?
Squids have washed up on shore before, but they're not known to dwell in shallow waters
most times, was this just a case of one dying close to shore and washing up?
From the deep sea to the shoreline and the beach is a long time.
The answer is out there, and I'm sure now that when you see a new story about a beached
animal, you'll think about how it got there.
Plus, many animals by the time they get to shore, are practically unrecognizable!!
13.
NES Console As a Nintendo fanboy myself, I consider this
a tragedy.
I also consider this a big mystery.
How so?
Well, if you can't tell, this is an original Nintendo Entertainment System console.
You know, the ones made back in 1983?
So how did it end up washed up on a beach?
Another question, who would throw a potentially perfectly good console (I honestly can't say
if it worked before it was thrown into the ocean) with a game inside of it?
Yeah!
Look!
There's a game in it, and someone just chucked it away.
It boggles my mind.
Someone clearly did not have respect for this console.
I also wonder what happened to it after it was found in this condition.
12.
Ambergris I know what you're thinking, "What the heck
is Ambergris?"
Well, how would you react if I told you that this was actually the word...for whale vomit?
It's true, I swear, and trust me when I saw that this is going to get a whole lot weirder.
So, why should anyone care that whale vomit has washed ashore?
Well, because this very special vomit...is incredibly valuable.
I still swear I'm telling the truth.
Apparently, this...uh...substance is sought after in order to make perfume.
Wait, it gets ever weirder!
So, the person who found this was a dog walker, he somehow found out what it is and gave it
to an auction house to sell.
The price it was sold for?
$16,253 dollars.
I bet you wish your vomit was that valuable, or useful, don't you?
11.
Waxy Objects You could argue that one of the craziest,
and most dangerous, things to wash up on a beach is an object that we can't identity.
And no, I don't mean like a lifeform, but rather, an odd substance or mass that can't
be explained at first look.
After all, would you touch something that you didn't know anything about?
This is exactly what happened in France last July.
Oh yeah, this is a recent affair.
Across 37 miles of French beaches, yellow objects of unknown origin started arriving
en masse.
And no one was sure of what was going on.
They smelled and looked paraffin wax, but how they got onto the beaches, or why they
were in such numbers, is still a mystery.
Just picture that for a second, you're in France, and you're going to the beach, and
when you arrive, thousands of these yellow objects are there.
That'd make me turn around, how about you?
Although the source is still under investigation, it's believed that these are a byproduct of
grease coming out of a boat's exhaust.
The clean-up of these objects has happened though.
10.
Fossilized Leaf For people who like to collect things on the
beach, it's hard to beat finding a fossil.
Especially one as pretty as a leaf.
As you can see, this isn't a standard fossil, as it's not in a rock, but the leaf itself
was fossilized in such a way that you can see the inner skeleton of the leaf.
It's a pretty cool visual.
It also makes you wonder if there are more fossils like this out on other beaches of
the world.
9.
Ice Chunks Ice is a natural part of the water cycle.
If water gets too cold, it freezes.
And in certain waters, that freezing happens in a big way, creating massive ice chunks
that have been known to sink fishing vessels.
But one thing that rarely happens is though ice chunks making it to the shoreline.
That is, unless you're in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
For as you can see in this picture here, not only are the ice chunks on the beach, they're
WAY up on the beach, and if you look closely in the background, you'll see that the water
is covered in these ice chunks as well.
Just imagine watching one of these ice chunks being left on the beach.
The picture shows that some of them are actually taller than a human beings, and they weigh
several tons depending on their size.
And they're just...sitting there...it's odd for sure, and quite a sight.
Speaking of ice sights...
8.
Ice Balls From Massachusetts to Michigan, we head to
a place where there are spheres of ice actually being thrown upon the shore by the waves of
the ocean.
In Lake Michigan, the ice in the water can actually be rotated by the waves in such a
way that they actually form spheres.
Decent sized ones too.
But, in 2013, the ice balls got a lot bigger.
How much bigger?
Well, they actually were the size of basketballs, and were said to weigh around 50 pounds.
The people who are used to this phenomenon even noted that they had never gotten that
big before.
Makes you wonder what caused the size change, and if that's going to be the last size change.
7.
Spacecraft Debris Here's another one that isn't too crazy in
context, but once you dive into it, it is odd where it ends up.
One of the reasons that NASA, and other space organizations, tends to launch their craft
into space near bodies of water is because as the craft goes into the air, they don't
maintain all that they launched with.
Many parts actually detach in order to ensure that the craft makes it into space.
So ask yourself, would you rather these massive pieces of metal fall into a city?
Or the ocean?
That's what I thought.
Still though, the fact that some of this debris, including the panel you see in the picture
above, made it into the beach is pretty surprising.
Although, it could be explained by the positioning of where it was and where exactly it crashed
into the ocean.
Oh, and if you find such a piece of debris?
Contact NASA, they may want it back.
6.
An Unexploded Bomb So, that "worst case scenario" I talked about
before with the wax things, that was truthful.
But what's also truthful is that there have been cases of certain explosive objects washing
ashore.
In the picture you see here, these kids, and their parents, think that a buoy covered with
rocks has somehow washed ashore.
That's fair given its look and how much the ocean has affected it.
But no, it's a bomb, and one that is still active.
Naturally, once it was found out to be a bomb, it was taken care of.
But still, you have to imagine the terror those people felt when they found out they
were very close to a bomb.
5.
Blue "Sailors" There's lot of life in the oceans, and as
I made clear with my first post, lots of these animals wash up on the beaches in one form
or another.
But here, I'm singling out a very special kind of fish that goes through a semi-yearly
ritual that ends up with them on the beach.
Off the coast of California, there were a string of fishes known as "by-the-wind sailors"
washing up on the beach, dead.
Many people had never seen this kind of fish before, and wish good reason.
They actually love the open ocean, and it's only via storm winds that they make their
way onto the beaches, involuntarily of course.
Sadly, when this happens, thousands of these fish end up dying because they're stacked
up and unable to get back to the open ocean.
4.
P-38 Plane Whether it be through war, storms, mechanical
failures, or something else entirely, planes sometimes end up in the water.
But usually, it's pretty deep into the water that you never see them again.
But, in Wales, the near perfectly intact remains of a P-38 Lightning aircraft was found.
Talk about a find!
This was a key part of the American air forces back in World War II.
It was a fighter plane, so it could've gone down in a dogfight, or something else caused
it to go down, it's impossible to tell with just the picture.
However, finding it must have been a real thrill.
3.
Puppy I'll keep this short and sweet, who finds
a puppy on a beach?
I mean, sure, people bring their dogs to the beach with them, but they're owned!
This puppy wasn't!
He was apparently just wandered the beach before he was brought home by the people who
found him.
Talk about a lucky dog!
2.
Coffee Cans Here's one you need to see to believe, in
Indialantic, Florida, beachgoers found themselves looking at hundreds, if not thousands, of
coffee cans.
But not empty ones, far from it, these were vacuum sealed coffee cans, strewn all over
the beach.
Here's the twist though, the brand was Cafe Bustelo, which is in New York, so how did
all of these cans make their way to Florida?
More than likely, there was a cargo ship and it somehow lost the cans it was carrying.
But that's just speculation.
However, if any of those beachgoers were coffee drinkers, it was their lucky day.
Especially if they liked Latin Espresso style coffee.
1.
A Giant Lego Man There are no words.
I mean, seriously, how do you even begin to describe this?
First off, it is real, this is a giant LEGO man that was found on the beach in Japan,
which might actually be the logic behind this, we all know how eccentric the nation of Japan
can be, and who's to say someone didn't make a Giant LEGO man?
Still though, there are so many questions!
Who made it?
Why is it on a beach?
How did it end up on the beach?
And why does its "shirt" say "No Real Than You Are"?
So many questions, and I fear I will never get the answers.
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