After arriving in Eden on Tuesday and doing very little at all, we ventured into Eden town centre on Wednesday in order to visit the main attraction in town - the killer whale museum.

Upon first entering the building we were confronted with a huge skeleton of a killer whale that spanned the length of the building, as well as several smaller bones and displays that lined the walls including a jaw bone of a blue whale that was twice as big as us! As well as all the bones, there were also displays on the boats that the fishermen used and a model of an old fishing boat. It was crazy to see the little wooden boats that the fishermen would take out onto the water to try to kill the whales with and also a little bizarre to think that they had dedicated an entire museum to something so barbaric that the whole country is now against.

Also along the walls were dozens of stories recounting the history of the town during the whaling years, such as the tale of 'Old Tom'. Old Tom was a famous killer whale that, every year, would help the fishermen round up the humpback whales by ushering them into the shallow bays so that they couldn't dive down to escape and then once the fishermen had slaughtered the humpbacks they would throw the tongues into the water for the killer whales to feed on. There were even tales recounting how Tom would sometimes drag the boats out to the humpbacks by taking the harpoon chain in his mouth when he became impatient!

We spent a while looking around at all the displays and reading all the tales before heading into another room in the back where there was a television showing a documentary on all the marine animals local to the area. After spending half an hour in the cinema we dragged ourselves out of the comfy seats and back to the displays and around the rest of the museum. There was another story about a whale that smashed through the floor of one of the fishing boats and sent the fishermen into the water and when they got the whale out of the water and cut it open they found one of the crew inside it's stomach still alive, but bleached from head to toe by the acids in the whale's stomach.

Once we had read all that we could we headed back out into the town and onwards to Ben Boyd National Park where we took a drive along the dirt roads at the northern end of the southern section until we came to Boyd's Tower. There were some nice views out along the coast from the base of the tower, which was built by Ben Boyd as a lookout for spotting whales but is no longer accessible as the staircases and ladders inside the tower have been removed.

From here we continued along the dirt roads as we tried to find our way through the national park to the lighthouse at the bottom of the tracks. After several kilometres of bouncing around the dirt roads and trying to manoeuvre around the biggest potholes we decided that maybe this wasn't the best idea for us and so we turned around and headed back to find the tarmac roads that we had left behind.

When we leave Eden in a few minutes we will be leaving New South Wales behind us, as we travel into Victoria for the first time with our first planned stop at the appealing sounding 'Lakes Entrance'.