We have had a great day here in Korea. The votes have gone well today, driving the Japanese government up the wall, which was great to see.

We also had a bit of a scoop in that we had an official Embassy visit from the NZ and Australian Environment ministers in their lunch break away from the main meeting. They were greeted at the embassy by the embassy crew, a scrum of journalists and also Sidedish, who had auspiciously returned out of the blue to witness this historic event. We gave them embassy t-shirts and Adam showed them around with the media snapping away relentlessly. We talked with them in front of the cameras discussing the bycatch trade in Korea, the whale meat factory plans and also Korea's IWC voting record. AP, ABC, NZ 1 and 3, Yonhap, Western Australian and local news crews were all out in force..

Incidentally (or rather 'accidentally' as the Korean government would say), five minkes have been 'entangled' here in the last three days. They were immature minkes and sold for roughyl $20-35000. Incredible timing, seeing as it comes on the back of a three day whale meat festival, which will have inevitably depleted meat stocks.. a coincidence that we have been passing on to delegates and journos alike.

Tonight the Tomato Hotel campaign team are coming down to the embassy for a few hours so that the crew can go into town to wine and dine accordingly. It is Kelly's last night and she will be much missed.