Gypsy Cove

This Gypsy Cove and Yorke bay. It is nearest and most accessible penguin colony to Stanley, only 2 miles away.

This beach was expected to be the landing site by the British during the war so was heavily mined, so you can not get onto the beach itself. There are still a lot of live mine fields across the 2 main Falkland islands.

You can just about see a small group of Magellic penguins on the beach. These are the small ones, who live in burrows on the cliff face. The much larger colonies live on the more isolated islands further out which require a lot more traveling to get to.

Even in this short walk, we saw lots of penguins, herons, cormorants and seals, and even a seal cub. You have to be very careful not to get too close the seals or sea lions when they have their young around them.




This is the view from my house. We have a 5 bedroomed house occupied by the hospital staff. Every couple of weeks or so people leave to be replaced by the new staff. Most people stay 2 to 3 months. It is a fairly easy walk from the house to the hospital. Everybody in town knows where the hospital house is, and there always seems to be people visiting. One of the locals acts as an unofficial hospital guide to the newcomers to make sure everybody is settled in. We then share his extensive DVD collection.