Beautiful day in Port Lincoln today.
First stop on our shore excursion was the Axel Stenross Maritime Museum, where we could have spent hours reading all the information on all the displays, but even the short stop we made was interesting.
Next stop was at the Fresh Fish Place where they gave us a lot of information about fish and fishing, and showed us a number of different fish they buy and sell. We also saw a demonstration of shucking oysters - apparently if you work there you need to be able to do 40 dozen per hour! - and filleting fish. Then we got the most delicious fish and chips for lunch.
Finally we drove around other parts of Port Lincoln - all through the tour the lady running it had been explaining various bits of history and current information about (mostly) the fishing industry and this continued for the last part of the tour - we saw all different sorts of boats and businesses before being returned to the ship.
Had a restful afternoon on board followed by dinner.
On the tour, they suggested that we should keep an eye out when we're sailing out of port for the holding pens where they fatten up the tuna. What they do is go out to see and gather a whole lot of appropriate tuna, then they gradually bring them back to these holding pens - it takes a week or two at no more than 2 knots to get back to the pens. Then they carefully move the tuna into these pens and spend the next 6 months feeding them pilchards every day, all the time monitoring their health and growth. Then, when they're big enough, they're harvested and pretty much all end up in the Japanese market. And we did see them - photos to be added later
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