20 years, the jawbone of a whale lay on the grass just behind the golden sands of Long Beach, near Batemans Bay on the South Coast of New South Wales. In summer, swimmers dried off on it after a dip, while in the cooler months, families gathered around it to picnic. The fact that the out-of-place bone was used as a bench from the mid-1940s is remarkable. But wait till you hear how the bone got there
