We have been
enjoying a beautiful summer day in Stanley! No excursion today, just office
& lab work at SAERI, including logistics preparations for our trip to West
Falkland tomorrow and Aldo's and my stopover in Ascension Island next week.
In the afternoon, I
got to try out Stanley’s amazingly beautiful swimming pool / leisure centre.
Amazing, for a community of less than 3000 people in this town! It is heated by
the exhaust heat of the diesel-fired power station, supplying about half of the
town’s electricity (the other half comes from wind turbines, putting the
renewable ratio in the Falklands above that of most civilized countries).
Tomorrow afternoon,
we’ll be driving to New Haven (west of Goose Green) for taking the Workboat
Ferry to Port Howard on the east side of West Falkland. Aldo and Alexandra will
be staying in the Port Howard Lodge, I’ll be camping in the garden of the
Lodge. Don’t expect any e-mail or blog updates from us until the end of the
weekend, we’ll be in very remote areas until Saturday.
Summer in Stanley
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