We spent the 2nd to the 8th April in the Falklands, still onboard the ship, moored at Mare Harbour, where we could come and go as we pleased. During that time we had some days out exploring in the car we hired. One day we went to Volunteer Point, which has 3 species of penguin (gentoo, king and Magellanic). These were the king penguins (the brown ones are the chicks)…
I’ve not seen Magellanic penguins on this trip as they don’t go as far south as South Georgia, so it was a nice treat to see these. Magellanic penguins are quite secretive and nest in burrows.
The beach at Volunteer Point is enormous and very lovely (although with a bitingly cold wind that was definitely not as warm as it appears in the photos!)
Volunteer Point also has dolphin gulls…
And turkey vultures…
Plus sea lions on the shore and Sei whales just offshore in the waves (which I didn’t manage to get any pictures of). It was a great day out! I’ve run out of photo space on this blog so I’ll put a few more of our other trips out onto my next blog.
On 9th April we finally left the Falklands, and flew home, via the same route that we came 3 months ago- the MOD flight back to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, via Ascension Island. We arrived back in the UK on 10th April and I am visiting my parents for a few days before heading home to Swaledale. I’ll put a few more pictures of our final Falklands days out on here soon.
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