28th December 2010 Kelvedon beach

We stopped here for lunch on the way back from Swansea. I gave up trying to get close to this butterfly and just used my telephoto zoom lens instead

Congratulations to Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for causing the early end of the Japanese whale slaughter for this year.

Sea Shepherd has often been criticised for its direct action as opposed to the whinging and whining of Greenpeace and various governments, especially the Australian Government. Australia has wasted millions of our dollars sending ships to observe the illegal whaling of the Japanese and take video footage for who knows what. The Japanese have only called an end to whaling this year because Sea Shepherd has mostly blocked their efforts to slaughter whales – this has caused the whalers to lose money!

The Japanese whaling business has been operating under the childlike and idiotic ruse of scientific research. They have bribed and threatened smaller island nation members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in an effort to sway voting in their favour. They have lied, lobied their own government, and bullied in an effort to slaughter whales that they have no right to slaughter.

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