Officials worked throughout Tuesday afternoon to free the whale entangled near Clovelly Main Road.
Clean-up teams have been struggling to remove the Southern Right Whale carcass from the shore.
EWN was invited to climb into a kayak to get as close as possible to the whales.
A whale being transported through the city on a truck - certainly not an everyday sight!
Four bulldozers were used to remove the dead whale from Capricorn Beach near Muizenberg.
