By JEFF TOLLAN – The Timaru Herald
Last updated 05:00 29/10/2009

From the briny depths of the South Pacific has come a massive … something, which has parked itself on the stony shoreline of a Temuka beach.

JOHN BISSET/ The Timaru Herald. CREATURE FROM THE DEEP: Rose Fraser was baffled by this find on Temuka’s Browns Beach yesterday. It turned out to be from the top of a sperm whale’s head.

Rose Fraser was walking along Browns Beach yesterday morning when she spotted the lump of stuff.

“I first saw it from a distance and I thought: ‘That’s a big white rock on the shore line … that wasn’t there four days ago’.” As she got closer to the thing she thought it could be a piece of driftwood – a really big bit of driftwood – but upon reaching it, Miss Fraser’s thoughts turned from sea to sky.

“I must admit, I thought: ‘Heck, this is an alien’. It looks like it’s got big ribs coming out of it, but it looks like they could be tentacles, so I don’t know.”

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