One of my wife’s gggrandfathers, Henry Mason, was the captain of a whaler that came from New London, Connecticut USA to the south coast of Western Australia in the late 1850’s. He married my wife’s gggrandmother in Busselton and after the birth of two children abandoned them in Hawaii. Hannah eventually made her way back to Busselton and remarried. I’m sure there are many other descendants of US whalers from this period.
There you go. Well not only in the 1800s, but I do know that in our very early settlment history in the late 1700s we had a lot of U.S whalers and sealers who came over here. Often there was violent skirmishes between the british sealers and the U.S sealers over who gets to target a certain colony. Some of these skirmishes were actually deadly ... certainly a brutal trade.
I'd love to see that. The accounts of how the harpooner would stand on the front of the dingy aiming to spear the whale is pretty gnarly. Moby Dick goes into it really well.
Harvey bay, 2nd week of August. Recommended whale song tours. Also Breamer Bay, Western Australia whale tours. There a family of orcas. You might see them go killing.
Hi, I'm the son of a NZ whaler from the Cook Strait. In NZ in the 19th Cent. whalers married into local Maori communities. I would be interested to know what contact was like between the whalers and Indigenous communities in Australia back in those days.
Gday mate, that is really interesting! I did post a video a few months back about sealers and their interactions with indigenous people and women. I actually think you might of commented on that video and told me your story. The history is mixed.to be honest. Sometimes sealers were brutal and took the women by force. But other historical records show intermarraige between early settlers and indigenous communities which was by mutual agreement. Thing with history is it is always messy and never really one sided.
@@TheBeardedBushranger yea mate that was me. For me, history is as much about why, as it is about what. However these days the focus seems to shift to being more about blame and inherited collective guilt. I don't buy into that myself. The why and the what should hopefully lead to understanding, but to get to the understanding requires honesty, regardless of how convenient that may or may not be. I'm sure the Bass Strait is full of 'unfortunate' encounters between black and white. But I'm sure there were many that were quite heart warming as well. There are probably a lot of tales you could explore there mate.
@@nzdarkelf2451 I think I'm in exactly the same position with how I look at history mate! You can awknowledge the bad stuff, while also admiring all the great stuff. We are very focussed on the divisive stuff in this day and age that many people are not even aware that there are many great interactions recorded and mutual benefits between settlers and native populations in our history. And you just can't put our modern day ethics and values on people in the past (who were often just trying to survive .. something we can't understand in modern day western countries).. otherwise you would have to condemn every single race and nation from history (because everyone was cruel and rather brutal back then) I'd rather learn from the past and be honest about both the good and the bad ... from all parties.
wonderful video it seems like you did a longer version about this I'll have to look back and find it🤩 yesterday I was digging through papers and ran across the book Moby Dick that I had purchased four years ago‼️ Maybe I will find the significance of purchasing that book and having you mention it today😀 Maybe I'll have to read it first😂 I love all of your videos stay safe
haha awesome, it's a great book! Some chapters are a bit tedious to get through, but otherwise I love it. Yeah I made a video on sealers a few months back
I guess one day people will be making history about the iron ore mining that brought people to Australian shores as well as I was watching this and thinking, that sounds familiar, I was just in a different Australian commodity setting up new mining and LNG camps around Australia & PNG
Gidday mate, what a nice treat I just got out of the remote bush today, thought I'd have a lookzies and Woo-hoo a new video bless yah mate. Imagine hunting whales with a spare in those days holy took some real balls,. Crazy what was okay
Great vid mate. Great history. Tough men who did that. I would love to know how many Great White Sharks would show up once there are dead / dying whales in the water. 🇦🇺 🇳🇿
Love the video mate, not sure if you are much of a reader, but there is a book called "sealed souls" by John Robertson. It's the best book on seal/whaling history. For Australia.
I was lucky, i was on a cruise ship leaving Sydney harbour for a rock n roll cruise. It was 100 years of Australian navy. I seen sailors ride the jibs. Many ships from around the world.
If your in port Fairy. The fishermen are offering a paid tour just out side the river. Do it. There 21 ship wreaks. They come in bad weather. Anchor drags, the ship hits the sand bottom. Bang bang, timbers open and over they go. Also the light house is a whaling station.
Hey Luke, have you read the The Life and Adventures of William Buckley? The edition from Text publishing has a nice intro form Tim Flannery and also an alternative 8-10 page biography that was published at the time of his return to 'civilization'. Text Publishing just got squired by Penguin too, so that particular edition may not be long for this world.
@@TheBeardedBushranger Yeah, I think you'll love it. It was written with the help of a journalist a bit later in his life (Buckley was illiterate after is time in the wilderness). Take it with a grain of salt, but it really is fascinating.
I recommend you read an online article written by the Kangaroo Island Pioneers Association. It's titled 'Kangaroo Island and the pre-colonial history of South Australia'. It's really interesting and tells more amazing facts about these sealers and whalers.
Short but very interesting video you’ve got a beautiful country that has been brutally exploited and ravaged, I served 6years as a child in the 1960s and have never got over being dragged back to cold bronchial Britain lol😂😂😂
Now this is a great present to wake up too, love your stuff mate.
Thanks mate, back to regular vids next week though.
Interesting insight into our past Luke.
Thanks mate.
Ooooooooooooo Satruday night stealth vid. Thank you hope you're all well as always another great video 😃
Haha well Sunday morning for me!
One of my wife’s gggrandfathers, Henry Mason, was the captain of a whaler that came from New London, Connecticut USA to the south coast of Western Australia in the late 1850’s. He married my wife’s gggrandmother in Busselton and after the birth of two children abandoned them in Hawaii. Hannah eventually made her way back to Busselton and remarried. I’m sure there are many other descendants of US whalers from this period.
There you go. Well not only in the 1800s, but I do know that in our very early settlment history in the late 1700s we had a lot of U.S whalers and sealers who came over here. Often there was violent skirmishes between the british sealers and the U.S sealers over who gets to target a certain colony. Some of these skirmishes were actually deadly ... certainly a brutal trade.
Fantastic video as always mate keep up the good work
Cheers mate.
Morton Island has a large iron harpoon on display. Bent apparently while hunting.
I'd love to see that. The accounts of how the harpooner would stand on the front of the dingy aiming to spear the whale is pretty gnarly. Moby Dick goes into it really well.
Nice work
Great video!
Thanks for watching.
Very interesting...BB...😊
Cheers mate, regular adventure videos starting from next week.
Harvey bay, 2nd week of August. Recommended whale song tours. Also Breamer Bay, Western Australia whale tours. There a family of orcas. You might see them go killing.
Hi, I'm the son of a NZ whaler from the Cook Strait. In NZ in the 19th Cent. whalers married into local Maori communities. I would be interested to know what contact was like between the whalers and Indigenous communities in Australia back in those days.
Gday mate, that is really interesting! I did post a video a few months back about sealers and their interactions with indigenous people and women. I actually think you might of commented on that video and told me your story.
The history is mixed.to be honest. Sometimes sealers were brutal and took the women by force. But other historical records show intermarraige between early settlers and indigenous communities which was by mutual agreement. Thing with history is it is always messy and never really one sided.
@@TheBeardedBushranger yea mate that was me. For me, history is as much about why, as it is about what. However these days the focus seems to shift to being more about blame and inherited collective guilt. I don't buy into that myself. The why and the what should hopefully lead to understanding, but to get to the understanding requires honesty, regardless of how convenient that may or may not be. I'm sure the Bass Strait is full of 'unfortunate' encounters between black and white. But I'm sure there were many that were quite heart warming as well. There are probably a lot of tales you could explore there mate.
@@nzdarkelf2451 I think I'm in exactly the same position with how I look at history mate! You can awknowledge the bad stuff, while also admiring all the great stuff. We are very focussed on the divisive stuff in this day and age that many people are not even aware that there are many great interactions recorded and mutual benefits between settlers and native populations in our history. And you just can't put our modern day ethics and values on people in the past (who were often just trying to survive .. something we can't understand in modern day western countries).. otherwise you would have to condemn every single race and nation from history (because everyone was cruel and rather brutal back then) I'd rather learn from the past and be honest about both the good and the bad ... from all parties.
well done dude
Thanks mate.
wonderful video it seems like you did a longer version about this I'll have to look back and find it🤩 yesterday I was digging through papers and ran across the book Moby Dick that I had purchased four years ago‼️ Maybe I will find the significance of purchasing that book and having you mention it today😀 Maybe I'll have to read it first😂 I love all of your videos stay safe
haha awesome, it's a great book! Some chapters are a bit tedious to get through, but otherwise I love it.
Yeah I made a video on sealers a few months back
I guess one day people will be making history about the iron ore mining that brought people to Australian shores as well as I was watching this and thinking, that sounds familiar, I was just in a different Australian commodity setting up new mining and LNG camps around Australia & PNG
Haha that will be interesting. A youtube channel on Australian history back in 2025
Gidday mate, what a nice treat I just got out of the remote bush today, thought I'd have a lookzies and Woo-hoo a new video bless yah mate.
Imagine hunting whales with a spare in those days holy took some real balls,.
Crazy what was okay
Thanks mate, yeah just a short one today. Back to the normal longer adventure vieos next week so stay tuned.
@TheBeardedBushranger +short was all goodys mate, I'll be back on the road on the 11th so I'll be enjoying every moment I can watching.
Great vid mate. Great history. Tough men who did that. I would love to know how many Great White Sharks would show up once there are dead / dying whales in the water. 🇦🇺 🇳🇿
Yeah you would think if the oceans were full of seals and whales .. they would of been full of sharks as well.
Love the video mate, not sure if you are much of a reader, but there is a book called "sealed souls" by John Robertson. It's the best book on seal/whaling history. For Australia.
I was lucky, i was on a cruise ship leaving Sydney harbour for a rock n roll cruise. It was 100 years of Australian navy. I seen sailors ride the jibs. Many ships from around the world.
If your in port Fairy. The fishermen are offering a paid tour just out side the river. Do it. There 21 ship wreaks. They come in bad weather. Anchor drags, the ship hits the sand bottom. Bang bang, timbers open and over they go. Also the light house is a whaling station.
3:06 . . . thereabouts , this is from a previous video, right.
That's right mate, the sealers camp video I did.
Hey Luke, have you read the The Life and Adventures of William Buckley? The edition from Text publishing has a nice intro form Tim Flannery and also an alternative 8-10 page biography that was published at the time of his return to 'civilization'. Text Publishing just got squired by Penguin too, so that particular edition may not be long for this world.
I do know the story of William Buckley but I have not read it in depth .. I think this should be next on my reading list.
@@TheBeardedBushranger Yeah, I think you'll love it. It was written with the help of a journalist a bit later in his life (Buckley was illiterate after is time in the wilderness). Take it with a grain of salt, but it really is fascinating.
I recommend you read an online article written by the Kangaroo Island Pioneers Association. It's titled 'Kangaroo Island and the pre-colonial history of South Australia'. It's really interesting and tells more amazing facts about these sealers and whalers.
Thanks for the reccomendation, I would love to look into that.
Australian 🐋🐳+🦭🦭!!
Short but very interesting video you’ve got a beautiful country that has been brutally exploited and ravaged, I served 6years as a child in the 1960s and have never got over being dragged back to cold bronchial Britain lol😂😂😂
Thanks for watching. I'll be back to my normal videos from next week!
It's amazing how those early whale hunters managed to wipe out entire species despite having limited resources.
The early ones didn't... modern whaling did..!
Yeah I'm not sure about whales, but I do know the elephant seal got wiped out from bass coast.
@@TheBeardedBushranger yes Canadian club..👍..doe doe birds in NZ... Extinction for survival...or corporate greed it's a sad situation 👍
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