Chapter 5 – 28th December – Cruise Ship Day

Chapter 5 – 28th December – Cruise Ship Day

The “Star Princess” anchored off Stanley

Today the population of Stanley more than doubled. We were visited by a nature cruise ship (about 200 passengers) and a floating hotel – The Star Princess (2400 passengers). The town was chaotic. Tourists wondering around taking selfies, walking in front of traffic (they forget we drive on the left) and the currency in widest circulation today – the US$. Sleepy Stanley was very different.

 The Clausens run a transport company so today is payday. Many tours departing the port and tickets being sold to those who (wisely) hadn’t booked through the ship’s excursions desk. Andrea was doing a fine job helping the tourists part with their money. We delivered a coffee and then retreated to people watch for a while. They kept asking for Wi-fi access and then discovered it didn’t come cheap ;)
Magellanics on the way back to the young

We soon escaped and decided to go for a coastal walk for around 5 miles. It was; as usual blowing a fresh breeze and the sun strength is even more deceiving. We watched the tender boats go back and forth to the ship – returning the passengers to the World buffet. Our walk took us back into Penguin territory again. It cleared the cobwebs.

 So a fairly quiet day ahead of a planned trip tomorrow to “Volunteer Point” where there is a large colony of King Penguins. This will involve a three hour journey – much of it completely off-road. If we make it back then I will type it up!

 Today’s Fun Fact – The Falklands TV has BBC1,2 & ITV (sorry Ch 4) repeated via the forces broadcast network. We are three hours behind time wise. So the TV showings are delayed by 3 hours. The ten o clock news appears at ten o clock – It’s just three hour old news.



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