CAPTION: A whale washed up on Kolonga beach. Photo/ Melemanu Bloomfield
A whale washed ashore on Kolonga beach this afternoon Sunday 22.
Tongan journalist Melemanu Bloomfield took photos at the scene.
She said it appeared the whale, of unknown species, had probably been dead for some time before washing ashore.
Some of the people at the scene tried to remove its teeth, she added.
