Kids seem unafraid of the proddings of his stick and he jokes with them about having killer whales in the bath and kitchen sink. “That’d give mum a fright, eh.” There aren’t many, but there’s usually one im­possibly knowledgeable tourist. Bert told of the biggest whale caught at Eden, a 97 tonner and a lady claimed that such whales only grew to slightly over sixty ton. “That so”, says Bert, “anyway he was big enough to play tennis on his back, so what are ye worried about, eh?” His stick stamped on the ground and she queried him no more.