Theres currently a big debate on what to do with the whale, keep it and get funding to foot the bill for a tourist museum, or give it away to a Ontario museum let them do all the work and foot the costs. Its hard to say.
My opinion... As a town population 600 with a council budget of $330,000 and the job to remove/preserve the bones of the blue whale coming in at $250,000 we obviously don't have the cash. when asked for help we got the reply that it was our problem deal with it... so no funding. I say we should give it away to the Royal Ontario Museum, but ask that we have a place in their museum dedicated to our town/park/UNESCO site, to attract tourism through them. We can still place in our own museum about the whale and where to find the bones. best of both worlds.
There are people all over the world coming to see this whale in our small town. Its being blown up over hundreds of news stations over the world. I have clips from england, edmonton, even the toronto star. Its quite fasinating!
Me and my friend Ashley decided to take a five minute walk down the boardwalk and see our famous new neighbor. Here are our pics ;)
Aren't we cool !
...And here are a few links to news articles on our blue whale/town, but if you need any information you can always comment below, Ill answer any and all questions.
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