Mmm…whale vomit rush:North Wales is facing a gold rush after 'whale vomit' was found washed up on its beaches.Isn’t humankind amazing? Give them lemons, they make lemonade. Give them whale vomit, and they make perfume.
Valuable ambergris - known as floating gold - has recently been found at Rhos on Sea and Shell Island, reports the Daily Post. Finds of ambergris can be worth around £2,000 - and they could lead to a gold rush among would-be beachcombers. Ambergris is used to produce perfume and can fetch more than £10 a gram.
It is produced when the whale has been eating squid and their parrot-like beaks have irritated the walls of its innards.
(Yes, btw, that cartoon whale is actually hurling chunks of ambergris. I may be vulgar, but I’m factually accurate with my Photoshopping.)
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