Blog No. 348 – Volunteer Point, Falkland Islands – 20 March 2026
I took this photo of a group of King Penguins at Volunteer Point, Falkland Islands on the 9th of February 2026. The noise they made was deafening and the wind screamed. I had left Adelaide on Sunday the 25th of January when the maximum temperature was 42 Celsius. A few days later, the maximum daily temperatures were 11 Celsius. **** Two King penguins facing each other at Volunteer Point on the 9th of February 2026. **** I arrived in the Falkland Islands late in the afternoon of Sunday the 2nd of February 2026. I was very sorry to leave the Falklands after spending only two weeks there.. The Falkland Islands is a self governing Territory of the United Kingdom. The human population of 3,400 people is vastly outnumbered by the thousands and thousands of penguins. When in the Falklands, I wrote daily diary entries and poems. This blog relates to a trip I took on 9th of February to an isolated beach called Volunteer Point, where there wer...
