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December 26, 2005
In the evenings, when I'm relaxing at the shack at Victor Harbor, I walk the standard poodles along the cliff tops of the southern Fleurieu Peninsula, which border the southern ocean. There, during the winter months, I sometimes see the southern right whales as they make their way to Antartica. There are just out to sea as they frolic and play near to the coastline.
I was down there last night, enjpting the space before the holdiday crowds turn up in mass. I now imagine this scene being played out before me from the clifftops:
Leahy
Even the Australian Government is not taken in by the Japanese pressure to commence commercial whaling.
The background to this is that a six-ship Japanese fleet set off from the port of Shimonoseki in western Japan in November. It aims to catch about 850 Minke whales, almost double the previous annual target of 440, and to add 10 Fin whales to what Japan calls its scientific whaling programme.
Alan Moir
Although Australia has proclaimed sovereignty over the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT), it refuses to challenge Japan's invasion of these waters. Japan does not recognise the whale sanctuary.
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