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Falklands day 2 - West Point Island and Saunders Island

  • aashildgod
  • 28. nov. 2023
  • 2 min lesing

Day 2 started with a visit, using zodiacs, to West Point Island. Here we hitched a lift with a Land Rover, driven by the couple managing the island, to a rookery with mostly black-browed Albatross and rock-hopper penguins.

The nests were amongst tall tussock grass and on the cliffs.

After spending over an hour photographing these amazing birds we walked the 2 Kms back to the landing point where the resident couple had baked many different types of cookies and cakes and prepared coffee and tea for all of us adventurers. A lovely garden party atmosphere followed.

After returning to the boat, Åshild and I stood on the fordeck looking for "Byron Heights" radar station where I spent 4 months in 1986 and finally we saw it. A moving experience to say the least!

Following lunch, we visited Saunders Island where we had our first in-depth experience with penguins 🐧🐧🐧 and a couple of sea lions. Apparently this is probably the only place in the world where you can see four types of penguins on the same beach; Gentoo, King, Magellan and Rockhopper. We saw all four. A few of the Gentoos already had tiny chicks, probably only 2 days old. There were some juvenile 1 year old King penguins too, looking like brown fluffy teddybears. Another wonderful day in the Falklands; birds, our first sea Lions and sunburn!


I dag startet vi i gummibåtene for å komme oss til West Point Island, der vi fikk sitte på med vertskapets landrover. Noe som anbefales hvis man har dårlige knær, hofter eller andre helseplager. Og det er ikke flaut, og landroveren kjørte mange runder😉. Vi så mye Albatross som hekket, og vi gikk tilbake, 2 km, der vertskapet på øya serverte kaker, kaffe og te til oss alle. For et hageselskap vi hadde her på Falklandsøyene i strålende sol og nesten for varmt for boblebukser og vindjakker😎

På båten igjen skulle vi passere Byron Heights, toppen av fjellet der Al var stasjonert i 4 måneder i 1986, dere vet, Storbritannia og Falklandsøyene? Vi studerte alle topper rundt båten, og til slutt dukket minnene og radarstasjonen opp, og min kjære mann fikk et rørende øyeblikk og minnene som er37 år gamle dukket opp🥲. Han sa han var glad jeg var der😘.

I ettermiddag var vi på Saunders Island, der pingviner og nye opplevelser ventet, og bildene taler for seg. Ubeskrivelige opplevelser, og i morgen venter Stanley. Herlig middag, solbrente, og god søvn er et must😘😴🚢


Westpoint Island



Between islands



Saunders Island




 
 
 

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