Flensing Deck

This is the Fleming Deck where they used to haul up the dead whales onto the roof, cutting them up and boiling their flesh to get their whale oil.

This guy visited us every afternoon. View great.

Wow. Amazing sunset from the deck and little curlews paying us a visit.

Very nice place

Great weekend away. Snorkeling was fantastic.

Thought it was just another old part of the resort left around, until I looked it up. A good reminder for them to leave.

During our stay at Tangalooma, this landmark was a common meeting place for our group. We speculated that it looked like an old dining complex (the supporting posts have a ballroom look to them) and there looked like there were holes for air conditioning structures.Then curiosity got the better of me and I did a search. Definitely not a ballroom. Flensing is the process of removing the blubber from whales. This structure was where this happened.The curlew was nesting in the area and was very cranky.

a great vacation place to see :D

I found this place super interesting. You can't get up on the top level any more, but you can walk around it and on the lower level.For anyone wondering, Tangalooma started life as a whaling station, and this is what remains of the buildings associated with that whaling. If you look, you can still see where a timber ramp used to attach to the seaward side of the concrete deck. This ramp used to run down gradually to the edge of the sea. Hunted whales were towed to Tangalooma and winched up the timber ramp onto the top level, where they were cut up and the parts dropped through the holes in the concrete deck directly into processing machinery installed on the lower level (where the basketball court is today).

The cruelty and barbarity of the whaling trade is a disgusting legacy left by man on Moreton Island.The Flensing deck serves as a gruesome reminder of the horrendous trade of whale meat and blubber.Repurposed now to provide holiday makers with a place to play ping-pong in the shade the structure should be torn down completely.Alternatively there is an opportunity for it to be turned into an education centre for whale watching tourism and sustainability.