Blue Whale cleanup January 1, 2008
Posted by Ron in Attractions, Events, Preservation.trackback
The half-dozen or so volunteers at the Oklahoma Route 66 Association’s cleanup day at the Blue Whale of Catoosa found that a lot of the work had already been done by Tuesday morning.
Trees surrounding the famous whale and pond lost many limbs during last month’s severe ice storm. Many of the broken branches precariously attached to the trees had been removed, as had many of the larger downed limbs.
But that still left many smaller broken limbs strewn throughout the Blue Whale grounds. Whatever we couldn’t pile into a pickup truck, we carried to a brush pile away from where Route 66 tourists would roam. That’s Frank Jugler (above), owner of the Chelsea Motor Inn in Chelsea, Okla., hauling away one of those branches.
The grounds were spic ‘n’ span in less than an hour, and we were glad we finished quickly, too. It was 32 degrees when we started, and the winds started picking up about the time we finished.
For more pictures of the cleanup, check out future editions of the Oklahoma Route 66 Association newsletter.
the whale rocks, thanks for the cleanup, rachel in indy.
I’m a Route 66 enthusiast. Thank you for maintaining that landmark!