OUR BIG TRIP

MARY & OLI GOING AROUND AUSTRALIA
SOUTHWEST WA - Page 23

16 October 2007, Tuesday

Continuation of the Whale World and Frenchman Bay story...
More pictures from Whale World - move to Page 24 if
you do not want to see how whaling was done....
Nice that they have sepia pictures
instead of colour pictures...

Left: After the whale is hunted they are
pumped full of air and a radio beacon is
attached and off they go for the next
whale leaving this one floating in the sea
- at the end of the day they are all
collected and the boat returns to the
station.

Right: The cuts in the tail show the boat
which took the whale and the amount of
whales hunted that day.

Below Left: Flensing - a very bloody job
to cut of the blubber from the whale.

Below Right: Cutting off the head of the
whale to make it smaller for the cookers.
Everything of the whale was thrown in
the cooker except the jaw bones and the
teeth which were used for other stuff.
Everything of the whale was used...
Today other animals inhabit the cutting-up deck - maybe
parent and kid (see the small one on the right)
The entrance to the shed with the
skeletons -those are the jaw bones
of a Blue Whale - the largest ever
living thing on Earth.
A humpback whale skeleton
A Pygmy Blue Whale - 24 m in length - the big ones can
get to 34 m in length - amazingly big.
The beach at Salmon Holes.
A new wildflower again at Salmon Holes and
everywhere in Albany.
The coastline around Albany is truly amazing - on the left Misery Beach and on the right the walk to the Blowholes (which
were not blowing because the weather was too nice)
This snake was crossing our
path on the walk back from the
blowholes to the car and was not
bothered by us and other
bystanders at all - we all had to
wait until it slowly disappeared
into the bushes again.