Chasing Whales to tending Mussels-120 years on the Marlborough Sounds

Thanks to Mike Strong (LANDFALL S&S 1935) and Waitemata Woodys

Last week the New Zealand TV1 program, Country Calendar, featured the short documentary piece above. It really does have one of the most annoyingly saccharine voice overs ever recorded, but once you get past that you will hear about an amazing Marlborough family that have owned the 1912 built – BALAENA for 62 years.

These days BALAENA has two lives – family cruiser and work boat servicing the family’s mussel farm. It is a great story going back to when they farmed Forsyth Island and then almost by default became mussel farmers.

(The video will play on mute by default, so find the 5 tiny dots in the bottom left hand corner to turn the volume up)

Forsyth Island, Marlborough