When we got up in the morning, Mum and Dad went to the information centre to look at what is here and then we left The Gap which has an overhanging lookout over a gap in the rock where big waves come in and spray up so high. It was a pretty good view because you could look straight down and see it splashing under you. We went over to a blowhole next. It was a pretty long walk over to it and we had to scramble down the rock until we got to a hole that went straight down to the ocean. The waves kept hitting the hole and the water would spray up right over it and looked cool! Usually with blowholes you are quite a far way away from them, but with this one you are allowed to be right next to it. There isn’t even anything blocking you from going into it but I wouldn’t recommend it. We went to the Albany Whaling Station next, which used to be the whaling station for Albany but it has been converted to a museum. The first thing we did, was we went on a whaling boat which was actually pretty cool. We went into the middle of the ship first, where we saw the kitchen, crew mess and officer mess and the cooks cabin in a small little area. The crew and officers mess were actually pretty similar with the only difference being that the officers mess has a small little kitchen in it with a microwave, kettle and sink and stuff like that. There was a ladder in the middle of the area going down where we got to the very bottom deck. It had a walk in freezer/fridge in it and an open space right below the bow. We went back up and onto the bow at the top. There were stairs going on to an elevated platform at the very front with a harpoon that is propelled with a grenade at the front. I was able to move it around but the firing mechanism has been disabled. There was a long bridge going from the elevated platform up to the helm which is called the gunners walkway. We went across it and it was pretty interesting that the helm was outside, usually the helm is in a small little building to block it from wind and rain. Behind it, there was a building that looked like where the helm should be, but there was the sonar display in there. The next part was in the inside of the ship again and it was above the eating area. It was the radio station and it looked like the nicest station on the ship to work at. It was quite a big space with 2 tables full of radio equipment and it even had a couch in it! When you went below the radio station, there was the officers’ cabins. It had the second and first mate and the captains’ cabins. The 2 mates cabins looked nice with a bed, a desk and a wardrobe with a mirror on it as well! The captain’s cabin was by far the best. It had a full seating area that was the size of the mess hall with a table around it. Next to that, there was a bed with a really big desk and wardrobe. All the beds were super tiny, and you would barely be able to spread your arms out a few centimetres while lying on it. Back in the eating area, there was a doorway going into the back section of the ship. We went into the engine room first, which had a lot of pipes and machinery which we had to duck under or step over on the walkway. The engine room went down a lot lower than what we were at too, but we weren’t allowed into the lower parts of it. Past the engine room into the very stern of the ship, it had all the engineers and regular deckhands’ cabins. They were really small and fit 2 people per room. They had 1 shared desk which was small and 2 small beds jammed in it. There were also some lockers in the main hall where they could put their stuff. After we went off the ship, we went into the cleaning area of the station where they chopped the blubber off the whale and threw the rest of the whale meat into cookers to be fed to the staff. The non-blubber or meat was used to make whale oil and they were stored in some massive tanks that were actually transformed into theatres showing documentaries. We watched a whale documentary and a whaling documentary which was pretty cool. The walls of the tank were rusted, and you could still smell some of the whale oil in one of them. After the whaling station, we kept looking around Albany. I was pretty tired after this, so I didn’t go to look at many more things and I am also writing too much so after we looked at everything, we came back to the van and went to bed.