by Audrey Benedict | Apr 30, 2023 | ePostCards
ePostcard #168: There She Blows! Photo Credit: Courtesy of Audrey DeLella Benedict. A mother gray whale and her calf rest and breathe at the surface in Laguna San Ignacio. THERE SHE BLOWS! “All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.” ― A reckoning quote from...
by Audrey Benedict | Jun 3, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #58: Whale Tears (South Georgia) The total harvest of marine mammals around South Georgia represents a slaughter which has never been matched around the world. The whaling stations built by the Norwegian and British whaling industry were large-scale...
by Audrey Benedict | Jun 2, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #57: Whaling Rust When you first visit Grytviken you are, quite simply, stunned into silence. In November of 1904 the Norwegian, C. A. Larsen, with experience whaling in Arctic waters, established the first whaling enterprise on South Georgia at Grytviken....
