Published: November 20, 2018
When anti-whaling activists arrived in Albany, they planned to convince the town that their future was in watching whales, not killing them. Forty years on, they remember the moment commercial whaling ended in Australia
The message came over the radio and was relayed into the engine room of the Cheynes IV whale chaser, where engineer Bob Reeby was at work.
“That was it: ‘Home speed, we’re going home’. That was the end of an era. It was a pretty sad moment,” Reeby recalls.
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