ON THE SHORES of Twofold Bay in southern New South Wales stands an old weatherboard cottage and the remains of a tryworks, a processing plant where oil was recovered from whale blubber.
Between the 1860s and 1930s, this inshore-based whaling station was operated by three generations of the Davidson family, making it the longest-running station of its type in Australia.
The family patriarch, Alexander Walker Davidson, emigrated from Scotland
