A whale carcass found on an Encinitas beach Saturday night is likely Wally the whale, who just won't stop washing ashore.

A construction crew attempted to cut up and remove the decomposing humpback from Grandview Beach Sunday, since lifeguards didn't have a boat big enough to haul it to sea. Work was halted when part of a forklift snapped off during the effort. Encinitas Marine Safety Capt. Larry Giles said lifeguards covered it in sand to cut down the stench, and workers will try again Monday, with plans to haul it to the Miramar landfill.

“You can smell it up to about a quarter mile away,” he said.

Giles believes the dead animal is Wally, who in life was YouTube famous, and in death has plagued Southern California beaches by repeatedly drifting to shore.

"We're pretty sure of it because of the other agencies we've spoken to," he said. "Yeah, it's Wally."

The 22-ton carcass was first found on Dockweiler State Beach in Los Angeles County on June 30. Lifeguards spent days tugging the animal back to the ocean only to have it reappear again, this time further south. According to the Orange County Register, the dead whale has washed ashore and been towed out to sea at least a half dozen times by different jurisdictions.

"It took us about 3 1/2 hours to get the whale about 10 miles offshore before we detached the line in hopes that nature would take care of itself," Orange County sheriff's Lt. Mark Stichter told reporters after the dead whale appeared near Dana Point.

Wally the whale, a female who was about 15 years old, was regularly spotted in the waters off Orange County in her later years. Although she was covered in whale lice, which usually signifies poor health, she was seen eating and breaching.

Last year, photographers who caught up with Wally off the coast of Newport Beach captured footage of the whale as she came to the surface. Water expelled from her blowhole and caught the light just so, creating a rainbow. The footage was put on YouTube and has been viewed more than 1 million times.