Whaling

While we were still in Cape Cod, we traveled a few miles to the city of New Bedford, MA.  They have a really nice Whaling Museum we wanted to visit.  The whale skeletons below were taken from whales that died and washed up on the shore. 

They also had a scaled down whaling boat that we were able to get on board.  Very interesting how they harvested whales in the day.  After the whale was killed, they cut it up and rendered it immediately on the ship and put the oil in barrels.