Dave McGrath, a resident of Patrick's Cove, was on the beach when he spotted hundreds, just hundreds of them scattered in the sand. They looked just like a pancake before you flip it over, when it has those dimpled little bubbles. I poked a couple with a stick and they were spongy and firm inside, he said. I've lived here for 67 years and I've never seen anything like this, never.
A man named Philip Grace uploaded an image of a pale gooey mass, which he compared to the dough used to make toutons, a Newfoundland fried delicacy. Grace’s post about the blobs, which he said ranged in size from dinner plate right down to a toonie, prompted a frenzy of possible explanations: paraffin wax, sea sponges, mould and ambergris - none of which withstood closer scrutiny.
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