Travel blog by a global nomad
Once again, I find myself at West Point Island in the West Falklands. It is a fine buy hazy day, with low clouds scudding over the hill tops before evaporating over the valley’s. The wind is, again, blowing quite strongly, but it is a balmy 13C and feels quite warm with my fleece top flitering [...]
The sun was shining out a pale blue sky as we pulled into Berkley Sound of East Falkland Island and huddled right up near its western most limit, near Long Island. Far from being the bustling metropolis of its reknowned northern counterpart, the area we were heading to, Long Island Farm, had only one house, [...]
After my morning disappointment of not finding the lost biblical ark, it was off to Carcass Island in search of something far more humbling – the burrowing Magellanic Penguin. The ship had relocated during lunch – literally just sailing slightly north and we were drifting just off Leopard Beach. From here, those wanting to stretch [...]
Today I got to lead a climb up Mt Arrarat. Mt Arrarat is fabled as being the place where Noah’s ark got stranded after the great flood – there was even a documentary made about it! True, this documentary, complete with pictures of what clearly looks like half an ark on a steep mountain slope [...]
Best features: The beautiful countryside, the wildlife, the people
Worst features: Some would say the isolation, but I didn’t feel that there and can’t think of anything that might make me think badly of this collection of Islands…
Best gastronomic feature: Definitely the shortcake biscuits at the farm on Carcas Island!
The people: Well, being so British to [...]
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