Blessed: Once-poor Thai fisherman stumbles across world’s largest blob of whale vomit on beach; experts claim value over $3 million dollars!

Smells like success.

Oh to be young and Thai, there eating some of the world’s best cuisine, getting some of the world’s best massages, gazing up at some of the world’s best Buddhist temples, speaking names with some of the world’s most syllables. Life presenting each day as a wonderful gift and even for the very poor fisherpeople.

And let us learn of Naris Suwannasang, a very poor fisherperson himself, who was there basking in perfection, walking along the beach in Nakhon Si Thammarat one fine morning when he stumbled upon several strange, pale rocks. He examined them for a moment then called his cousin to help carry the strange loads to his house. After poking and prodding then lighting on fire, the two realized they had discovered a treasure trove of ambergris, or sperm whale vomit, and whoa!

Ambergris, or sperm whale vomit, is also called “ocean gold” as it in an important ingredient in perfume, giving off a pleasing musty smell. It is also very rare.

Suwannasang became very excited, called a sperm whale vomit dealer and was immediately made an offer of over $3 million, as it was the largest blob of sperm whale vomit ever discovered.

The rich get richer, as they say.

Suwannasang made himself a delicious bowl of panang curry, beef, with a side of sticky rice to celebrate his fortunate turn but then became scared that someone would steal his sperm whale vomit so registered it with the local police.

I might have been more worried about the local police, but I am not Thai.

In any case, we surfers spend much of our lives in the ocean though I have never heard one of our kind finding any sperm whale vomit.

Cursed, I suppose.