Albany

A day of two halves in Albany WA. This morning we went to the last whaling station to close in Australia in 1978 that I mentioned yesterday. It was horrifying to see the industrial scale on which whales were slaughtered and processed. Once there were hardly any humpbacks left, they moved on to sperm whales which are toothed whales. My main is one of the uses of the teeth - being carved into beautiful figures.

In the afternoon we went to the National ANZAC Centre which commemorates the 41,000 Australian and New Zealand soldiers who were sent in convoy from Albany in 1914 to fight in WWI. Most of them went to Egypt and a lot didn’t come home - more slaughter :-(. The first extra is a lovely sculpture in the museum of a soldier giving his horse a drink out of his hat.

We have just set sail and watched the pilot jump across to his boat.