This past weekend was super busy but one of the best so far. We packed in a FULL day Saturday, and did a fancy night on Sunday.
Saturday morning, we hopped the 9:30 ferry into Sydney where we were planning on just heading to the Wildlife center and Kirribilli (post to come later). But to our great luck, we saw this as we pulled into the harbor!
It is hard to read, but the side of the ship says Sea Shepard and free tours!
close up on the ship with Jeff!
A bit of back story if you are not familiar with the Sea Shepard organization. They are a group dedicated to saving marine live all over the world. There is a show on Animal Planet called Whale Wars that follows one of their teams. It documents the environmentalist who are battling the illegal Japanese Whaling that is taking place in the Antarctic. They spend 3 months every summer (Dec - Feb) doing all sorts of crazy things to make the Japanese unsuccessful at killing whales. Very entertaining!
Anyway- we got to tour one of their ships - the Bob Barker from the crew themselves.
Our tour guide - a crew member, showing us the boats they use to go out and attack!
The Sea Shepard symbol on the boat
Jeff in the equipment room
the lounge
We loved getting to see this and it was a great addition to our day. We did learn that the crew is fully volunteers and the operation runs completely on donations as well. We did make a donation after the tour!
Great start to the day!
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