Aerial view of the settlement
and what it looks like from the land
An extraordinary event was taking place when I arrived – the King Cormorant chicks were learning to fly. They flew from the hill behind the settlement into the settlement, hung about for a bit and then walked back up the hill to do the same the following day.
Confused cormorants
Cormorants by the whale bones
Some of them didn’t manage to negotiate the roof of the building I was staying in
Cormorants back at the top of the hill
The whale bones with no cormorants
Fence posts are serious constructions in the Falklands
The weather when I was on Bleaker was not good – very heavy winds, difficult to stand up, binoculars hopeless and impossible to take photos.
Kelp after the winds
Interesting rocks
and a limpet
On top of that I was the only person staying in a brand new building with 4 double bedrooms all with en suite bathrooms. The host (i.e the farmers wife on the island) brought plated up meals ready for the microwave across to me from her house. So I had time to kill and did the following jigsaw in less than 24 hours.
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