I can’t stop thinking about something that happened 2-3 weeks ago (can’t remember the exact day). While driving down Chambers Creek (as we do almost every day), from UP down to Steilacoom, my daughter and I smelled a terrible smell from along the upper ravine area all the way down to the reservoir bridge. Because we’ve had so many bodies turn up in the water over the past year (3 or 4), I commented that I hope it’s not a body. I literally said that
. We agreed that probably a large animal, maybe a deer, had died nearby because the odor dissipated by the time we got south of the reservoir, but for both of us it was the worst smell we’d ever encountered and had to turn the car vents off. It was definitely a decomposing something - very different from the usual “smells of the sea” you sometimes get living near the water. I’m sure other locals noticed the odor that day too, it was distinct.
I feel horrible to think what it may have been, and hope it was not that. I had completely forgotten about it, but DD mentioned it last night when we were talking about the case and reminded me.