A blog created by Donna Matrazzo, science and history writer living and working in a floating home on the Multnomah Channel on Sauvie Island outside Portland, Oregon, USA. Posts include wildlife encounters and descriptions, kayaking, other boating, moorage life, history, Sauvie Island Conservancy, the river, and the crazy, quirky and unexpected experiences of living on the water. I'm the author of "Wild Things: Adventures of a Grassroots Environmentalist," an Oregon Book Award finalist.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Decomposing seal, weeks 1 and 2
Two weeks ago I came across this dead, decomposing seal caught in a logjam near the confluence of the Multnomah Channel with the Willamette River. It was chewed a bit on top.
Last week I came across it again. It was upriver of where I saw it the first time, and on shore, on the riprap almost at the confluence. Much more of it has been eaten. Hmmm, in the wild it looked like a seal and I think was as least four feet long and meaty. Here in the photo its face looks more fish-like.
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