This is a writing i had to do :)

Beached Pilot Whale

Late on Thursday the 10 of February 2017 a pod of hundreds of whales beached themselves at Farewell Spit in the, South Island. It was one of the worst beaching in the history of New Zealand.

Farewell Spit is a common place for whales to beach themselves, but not in such a large numbers. As many as 400 whales died with some having to be put down.

There were more than 500 volunteers helping to refloat the whales; some coming from all over New Zealand. This is a great sentence. The volunteers managed to refloat 100 or more whales back out to sea, but  don’t need that word after some of them came back in. It was then that, the volunteers formed a human chain to stop this happening again. Them coming back.

The way the whales die is from Dehydration. They collapsing under their own weight or drowning when high tide covers the blow hole. Once drowned they can sometimes explode due to the methane gas build up within their bodies. This is tragic and very sad to see.

The whole thing is very emotional for all the volunteers especially when some of the whales have to be put down. I would put the words below with this paragraph as it is about the emotional side of these deaths.

I think it is very sad because the whales beached themselves and died, but it's good to be helping and hopefully we can learn why they do it.

By : Kelly-Brooke Christie