My first impression of Eden was that it is slightly down-at-heel. The museum explained that the Greenseas tuna cannery closed in the 1980s and there has been less work since then. This museum commemorates Old Tom, the leader of the whales who co-operated with the Indigenous fishers and then the Eden whalers to hunt and kill other whales. The museum is a local initiative, mooted in 1931 as a place to house Old Tom's skeleton after he died.
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AuthorIn mid 2018 I started recording each night I sleep in Bertha: sometimes just for myself, sometimes to share with friends and other travellers. Archives
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