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"It's big!" said Charlotte Hahn, 6, of the baby whale skeleton at the Thursday and Friday. "It has a lot of parts," chimed in her sister, Maggie, 9. Visiting Watsonville from Long Beach, the girls' grandmother took them to visit an unlikely tourist attraction: a skeleton of a baby blue whale that washed up on Pescadero State Beach last summer. Members of the California Science Workshop Network—including those from the Watsonville Environmental Science Workshop—gathered the whale carcass in August 2011, cleaned the bones and put the skeleton back together. First displayed in the Spirit of Watsonville Parade on Wednesday, the skeleton made its next stop at the community center. "It's amazing how the bone structure is like ours in a lot of ways," said Theresa Byers, the girls' grandmother.

“It’s big!” said Charlotte Hahn, 6, of the baby whale skeleton at the Thursday and Friday.

“It has a lot of parts,” chimed in her sister, Maggie, 9. Visiting Watsonville from Long Beach, the girls’ grandmother took them to visit an unlikely tourist attraction: a skeleton of a baby blue whale that washed up on Pescadero State Beach last summer.

Members of the California Science Workshop Network—including those from the Watsonville Environmental Science Workshop—gathered the whale carcass in August 2011, cleaned the bones and put the skeleton back together. First displayed in the Spirit of Watsonville Parade on Wednesday, the skeleton made its next stop at the community center.

“It’s amazing how the bone structure is like ours in a lot of ways,” said Theresa Byers, the girls’ grandmother.

Santa Cruz County

Bay Area

Watsonville

California

Children and adults alike admired the gigantic skeleton that washed up on a local beach in 2011.