Falkland Islands Part 6 of 9 (excluding the wild life parts) - Bleaker

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.