Sea Shepherd ship tour
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xenithSea Shepherd's MY Bob Barker, and a sign saying "Free Ship Tours".
Sea Shepherd is best known, at least in these parts, for their confrontations with the Japanese whaling ships, and the Bob Barker is just back from doing that in Antarctica. But they're also occupied with campaigns opposing the dolphin slaughter at Taiji, in the Galapagos Island (sharks for their fins) and some things I don't remember but if you're interested check their website.
I'd just left the Endeavour after the "familiarisation tour" as a prelude to the ship being open to the public the next day. It was cold and wet, and I was hiding under a shelter waiting for the latest squall to pass.
Not a lot of visitors going on, and it's free, and I have nothing else to do...
The difference between boats and ships: boats go on ships. I want to say these are on the foredeck but not sure that's the right term here. Anyway, you'll see where they are later.
You can have too dark or you can have blurry. As I'm going on board, I ask if they're happy for me to take photos. "Sure," says the girl with a wave of her hand, as if she wondered why I bothered asking. But no one else in the group is taking photos and I feel awkward, and it takes a few photos to work out the best setting for the lighting level, and then the lighting changes. So I just take a few photos and hope they come out OK.
Or sometimes I give in and use the flash. This is the crew's living area.
Sneaky inconspicuous photo taken while watching a 10 minute film on whale hunting. (Well as inconspicuous as you can be with a noisy, big camera.) It was a nice cosy corner, with the comfortable chairs, entertainment system, shelves DVDs (all donated).
Quick snap while waiting to go up the ladder.
Ship's bridge.
In response to a visitor's question, our guide talks about whaling the northern hemisphere, where it's legal so they don't act against it (because if they're do, they're breaking the law) but down here in the south, in Antarctic waters, Australian territorial waters, whale sanctuaries, it's illegal so they feel they're free to act against the whaling ships.
There are the boats.
A deep water harbour and working port, and a very dreary day.
Looking back towards the stern, and that's the way we went on the way out.
If I remember correctly, that's for the helicopter.
Down the ladder
And don't forget to stop at the merchandisetent table on the way out.
No they didn't say that :) Although they did have a table selling books and videos and stickers and stuff just here (left side of photo).
Sea Shepherd is best known, at least in these parts, for their confrontations with the Japanese whaling ships, and the Bob Barker is just back from doing that in Antarctica. But they're also occupied with campaigns opposing the dolphin slaughter at Taiji, in the Galapagos Island (sharks for their fins) and some things I don't remember but if you're interested check their website.
I'd just left the Endeavour after the "familiarisation tour" as a prelude to the ship being open to the public the next day. It was cold and wet, and I was hiding under a shelter waiting for the latest squall to pass.
Not a lot of visitors going on, and it's free, and I have nothing else to do...
The difference between boats and ships: boats go on ships. I want to say these are on the foredeck but not sure that's the right term here. Anyway, you'll see where they are later.
You can have too dark or you can have blurry. As I'm going on board, I ask if they're happy for me to take photos. "Sure," says the girl with a wave of her hand, as if she wondered why I bothered asking. But no one else in the group is taking photos and I feel awkward, and it takes a few photos to work out the best setting for the lighting level, and then the lighting changes. So I just take a few photos and hope they come out OK.
Or sometimes I give in and use the flash. This is the crew's living area.
Sneaky inconspicuous photo taken while watching a 10 minute film on whale hunting. (Well as inconspicuous as you can be with a noisy, big camera.) It was a nice cosy corner, with the comfortable chairs, entertainment system, shelves DVDs (all donated).
Quick snap while waiting to go up the ladder.
Ship's bridge.
In response to a visitor's question, our guide talks about whaling the northern hemisphere, where it's legal so they don't act against it (because if they're do, they're breaking the law) but down here in the south, in Antarctic waters, Australian territorial waters, whale sanctuaries, it's illegal so they feel they're free to act against the whaling ships.
There are the boats.
A deep water harbour and working port, and a very dreary day.
Looking back towards the stern, and that's the way we went on the way out.
If I remember correctly, that's for the helicopter.
Down the ladder
And don't forget to stop at the merchandise
No they didn't say that :) Although they did have a table selling books and videos and stickers and stuff just here (left side of photo).
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