About 250 whale tails made a grim graveyard of a bright summer's day at Mission Bay yesterday, as Greenpeace supporters put on a symbolic gesture of defiance against whaling.
Greenpeace whales campaigner Pia Mancia said about 150 people turned up for the New Zealand leg of the international day of action against whaling.
The adults created a memorial of whale tails, while the children built a large sand-whale as a tribute to the whales being hunted in the Southern Ocean.
It was a far less direct protest than the aggressive jousting over the past fortnight between Greenpeace and the Japanese whaling ships.
"There are 17 different countries where Greenpeace is doing things, including Australia, the USA, Japan, Finland, Switzerland, Greece and India," said Pia Mancia.
"What we did was a purely symbolic action, and ours was the first to happen. In Fiji they gave letters to the foreign ministers of Pacific Island nations and to the British and Australian High Commissions, asking them to do more."
Tails of whaling woe on a day of protest
Picture / Brett Phibbs
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