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Whale Wall.

As he scraped remnants of flesh from the carcass of the dead pilot whale, Trevor spoke of whale sightings and death accumulations of fossils. Once he had seen an Orca pod steal up on a RIB full of Antarctic tourists, he'd gripped the tiller and stared hard into the eye of a killer whale. A man whose arthritic hands now pulled wires tight through the bleached skeleton, fixing it to the whitewashed croft wall: a whale leaping into its own shadow.