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Update from the Falkland’s!

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Phoebe has been in touch with Charity and sent some more stunning pictures and very cute penguins! It does look like a warmer day than their first update!


Phoebe went to Yorke Bay where they saw dolphins and young fluffy Gentoo penguins and then walked a few kilometres from there to Gypsy Cove where the burrowing Magellanic penguins live.


Phoebe is applying to universities and is looking to do art history.


Phoebe tells us about their experience so far in their own words.


The people here are very friendly, they smile at you when you walk down the streets without fail and wave at you in their cars,
There’s a diverse mix of people, coming from Argentina, the Philippines, India and South Africa as well as British people of course. The locals here are very openly set on keeping the Falklands British.
Walking down the seafront in Stanley there is occasionally some penguins fishing, you can watch the wildlife from a café called “the waterfront” and it’s very pleasant, it’s a tradition to go there every Sunday for me and my mum.

The tourism is huge here, large cruise ships come in every other day when the weather is good, and you can tell the tourists apart from locals because they all wear matching red or blue coats. They come to Stanley harbour on small speedboats, and they get absolutely soaked when it’s a windy day.
The biggest cruise ship had 3000 people onboard, almost more than the entire population on the islands and there are so many gift shops it is crazy.
I am going to get a job soon where I warden tourists away from the penguin colonies at the beach, there has been some bird flu that has killed a few colonies of penguins, but the population is swiftly recovering, lots of baby king penguins are hatching.


I spend a lot of my time at the Falklands library, it’s really nice there and it’s a great resource to help me with applying to universities soon.



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