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Coast mystery: Cow washes up on beach
San Francisco Chronicle ^
Posted on 1/12/2005, 4:51:43 PM
The highest tide of the year brought an unusual visitor to Ocean Beach Tuesday afternoon -- a dead cow.
While it is not unusual for dead sea animals such as sea lions and whales to wash up on the beach, this was the first time anyone could remember that a cow ended up on the coast of San Francisco.
The all-black animal is bigger than a calf and smaller than a dairy cow. It ended up at the foot of Noriega Street and was reported to the National Park Police by a visitor at about 4 p.m.
Where the animal came from or how it got in the ocean is a mystery. "We've never had a dead cow on the beach before,'' said National Park Service spokesman Rich Wideman.
Two-Headed Calf
by Laura Gilpin
Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap the bødy
in newspaper and carry to the museum.
But tonight is alive and in the north
field with the mother. It is a perfect
summer evening: the moon rising over
the orchard, the wind in the grass. And
when staring into the sky, there are
twice as many stars as usual.