Today we woke up in Eden and paid a visit to the Killer Whale museum. No Tragically Hip here, just a history of the local whaling industry. It turns out that the local onshore whaling crews were helped out my a pack of killer whales (orcas) with a taste for the same whale as the humans. The orcas would find a baleen whale out in the ocean and corral it back towards the bay. One of the orcas would signal to the crews that they had something by making lots of noise by the boats. The humans would then go out and harpoon the whale, during which the orcas would prevent the whale from diving or breathing (by rolling over onto its blow hole). One the whale was dead the humans would tie it up to a buoy and leave it for the orcas, who would eat the tongue and lips, and leave the rest. The humans would then come back and bring the whale to shore for processing. It ended once the supply of baleen whale went down and the orcas stopped showing up. All in all a pretty fascinating story, and the only documented case of that kind of cooperation in the world.
The rest of the day was a long drive to Melbourne, where we will stay for the next two nights.
-John
SVP, lire le texte de John pour connaître ce que nous avons fait aujourd’hui. Fascinant musée des Orcas.
John a conduit le chemin en entier entre Eden et Melbourne, soit plus de 550 km. J’ai joué le rôle de co-pilote. Mon rhume ne s’est pas amélioré et en plus, j’ai fait un genre d’indigestion avec l’eau que j’ai vu de ma gourde de randonnée. Je crois que des parasites se sont développés. Je vais laver ma gourde demain.
Merci John pour la route fait aujourd’hui. Nous passerons 2 soirées ici. Demain, match de rugby.
– Chantal
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