fifth day

Today mom and I and a girl from Denmark went to Hvalba. Our lookout was on the north side of the bay next to a road tunnel. We watched the sun rise and then I sent in the weather report. Cloudy but clear. No rain. Only ten minutes later it poured and fog came in and we couldn't see a thing. Shortly after it cleared up again. We walked around the steep slope a bit and looked around. There was a cave next to the tunnel which looked like it was a test drill in the rock. Inside there was lots of trash and one or two dead sheep.
Then we got an unsuspected break from what was going to be an uneventful day when the team on the other side of the tunnel called. They needed the jumper cables that were in our car because theirs wouldn't start. So we drove down to the restrooms where they were stranded and helped. Some time after we got back we got some great entertainment.
Three men unloaded wooden boards and rolls of wire fence. They started randomly attaching boards to previously installed wooden posts. Apparently they were trying to build a fence. It was very amusing to watch. The whole construction looked like something some small kids had built. It turned out that next Saturday is sheep slaughter day, so they were building this fence to round them up and load them onto trucks.
Then two other farmers came and talked to us. Of course we talked about the whales and they gave us the usual arguments. Paul Watson is a criminal, whale meat tastes good, better than pork or beef, those animals all have growth hormones in them, they need whale meat, it's a humane method, they don't go looking for them, they only kill them when they swim by, there are 800000 pilot whales which is more than enough, they don't kill that many. We are misinformed. Bla bla. Iceland's tourism is increasing because they sell whale meat. 15 men died during a grind 100 years ago (so what?)
I also asked about the sheep. They kill all the sheep except a few good females and I guess some breeding males because they would die anyway in the winter. They don't shear them because they can't earn money that way. The older guy said he slaughters them in his basement but shoots them first.
One good thing the other guy said was that his daughter and someone else saw pilot whales recently and that they asked that it should not be reported.
Meanwhile the fence construction continued but it still didn't look any better. We could also not quite see the purpose behind it. We also saw the Danish navy ship. We saw some small fishing boats but other than that the fence guy was our only attraction. Just before the end of our shift the Sandvik team went down to the Hvalba dump and found some unidentifiable bloody substance. We drove down as well and had a look. The place was on the west coast and absolutely beautiful. High cliffs, waves crashing, sun setting over the ocean, the perfect place for a cafe, bar or picknick area. Instead they installed a cement shoot on the cliff and turned it into a dump. They used to drive old cars down here, which is now forbidden but there was so much trash and it stank! It was really sad! We took pictures of the bloody stuff, but still weren't sure what it was. We reported it to the campaign leader, perhaps someone will find out.