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Whaling Tale
Valley Of The Giants

The story is about a rock penguin

It's a small penguin, not a king penguin

You can see thousands of them breeding

When the warm season starts


And they only lay one egg at a time

And if you take one away they'll lay another egg but no more

But I want to tell this story really about

One incident, one day it was a gray misty day


With the wind blowing hard and there was a heavy smell running

And a whale factory was pitching and yawing

Not really a very good day to pick up the whales

Over the stern of the factory ship


There were one or two dead whales at the stern of the vessel

And the whale catchers were coming in with their whales

And in the distance you could see the icebergs

Quite a number of them


And the men were trying to get ready

To pull the whales over the stern of the vessel

There was a pack of killer whales around

Which came tearing towards the factory ship

And they tore chunks out of the whales


And there were a number of men at the stern of the vessel

With guns shooting at the killer whales

The minute they hit a killer whale the rest of the pack went after him

And tore him to pieces


But let's get back to the story of the penguin

I'd say there were about 6 or 7 whales

Some of them blue, some of them fin at the stern of the vessel

And there was that small rock penguin sitting on top of the whale back


And as we were pulling up the whales one after another

Over the stern of the vessel

It was rather difficult with the heavy swell running


The penguin hopped from one whale to another

The killer whales were all around the dead whales

They were tearing into them and the sea was red with blood


And by that time there was a number of men

From the whale factory coming astern and watching

The penguin at the back of the whale


And the men where shooting as fast as they could

To stop the killer whale from getting, getting the penguin

Which was sitting or trying to hold on to the back of the whale

But as the whale was pulled up they'd shoot


It was difficult for the winchman to regulate

And he had to watch very carefully not to, with the swell of the vessel

With the swell of the sea running and the vessel moving

To stop the penguin from slipping off its back


The chute was quite steep, it was about I would say, 30 degrees

And the little penguin climbed close to the tail of the whale

From which the whale was pulled up the chute

And the men were all standing around and watching

And hoping that that penguin would finally get up, get up on deck


It took a long time to lift that last whale up

If there was a swell the winchman up on top had to watch

And be as careful as possible not to jerk and increase the movement

So that the little penguin could stay on top


We got him to the stern of the chute

At the beginning of the chute and he got saved

We kept on, we kept on slowly pulling


And as we pulled the little penguin slowly but surely

Went along the back of the whale from the tail

Of from the tail to the middle of

To the middle of the back


But at that time the sea was running heavy

And the movement at the stern was rather erratic

Finally when we got him up about three quarters of the way

I don't think there was a man working on the stern of the factory


They were all watching and hoping too

That the little penguin would get up on top

As the killer whales were just waiting down below and just watching

And the men were shooting and trying to kill these killer whales

And therefore they were afraid

That the little penguin might slip in the water


Finally when we got it really all the way up

Everybody started to breathe a sigh of relief

But there was a heavy, heavy swell which came under the factory

And rolled the whale on the side and the little penguin slipped off

And as it went down the chute the killer whales got it


Most of the men were not happy that day

There were also there's millions of penguins

That was one of the sights which they did not care to see again

But that's the way in Antarctic, there's no give and take

It's a hard, hard place to be in but, c'est la vie


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