The second Visitor Pavilion project that Palcoprep was involved in is in King's Point, Newfoundland. We mounted the skeleton of a Humpback Whale. This specimen, at 45 feet, was more than 15% larger than the Sperm Whale that we mounted in Triton. This project was completed in 2009. I was not able to photograph as much of the process as I had previously done with the Triton project. I did visit the shop in Drumheller when the assembly was well underway and took a number of photographs of the work in progress. I was particularly amazed at the size of the flippers, and the jaws. These were enormous... and the humpback isn't anywhere near the largest of the whale species. Just imagine the size of the big ones, the Fin and the Blue. If we ever getting involved in mounting one of these, we'll need a bigger shop!
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