Paul Keller first thought he was hearing water splashing on a rock. Turns out it was a large shark splashing about as it tore into a whale carcass.
“I’ve never seen anything even remotely close, other than, you know, documentaries on African lions feasting on the carcass of things,” said Keller.
He and his wife were vacationing on Campobello Island for the week, up from their home in China, Maine.
Keller says he was exploring the shoreline behind the cottage they’d rented when he came across the hungry shark eating a dead whale that he estimates was about 7.5 metres away.
“It was kind of surreal,
