'The real problem is the Americans'
Posted by at 2:40 PM,
September 17, 2003
I think today spent in Hofn is probably like what I envisage when I hear
stand-up comedians talking about a difficult audience... they weren't
such a receptive bunch. But that made the ones we could talk to all the
more important I guess.
The ship's berth wasn't too hot - people had to make a drive out to find
us, but many did. There seemed to be a lot of families with young kids
and a lot of teenage boys.
I have to applaud Johanna for enduring one particular visitor today
though, a somewhat paraphrased conversation went thus:
Him: - The REAL problem is the Americans catching dolphins with their
tuna nets.
Johanna: - Yes, that's an issue that Greenpeace has done a lot of work
on in the past.
Him: - I know what it's like, that's my fishing boat over there (*points
to boat opposite*) and I catch 400 - 500 dolphins in my nets each year.
Because I have more than one boat. And there are so many dolphins around
here. Most of them I just throw over the side, sometimes I give people
the meat...
-- Willie
