Hello all at Glaitness
I hope you all had a lovely holiday. I had a week off here also, so I took the chance to head out into the countryside. In the Falkland Islands the countryside is called ‘camp’ after the Spanish word for countryside, ’campo’. Camp is very big and very quiet. There are only a few hundred people living out there and for that reason there is no where to buy petrol and the food shop only opens for a few hours a week. You have to remember to take everything with you.
The roads are also very different. They are not nice tarmac ones like in Orkney, they are quite rocky and rubbly and you need a 4x4 to drive on them. This picture shows road being worked on. There are no traffic lights, you are expected to drive straight through the road works.
This weeks main video is penguin based again! I will move on from penguins to show you more of the Falkland Islands soon! Enjoy!
I also had the chance to visit the southernmost suspension bridge in the world. It was made almost 100 years ago so that farmers could get their sheep across the rived Bodie. Nowadays there is a road that goes via a different route and it is a three mile walk across rough countryside if you want to reach the bridge. I did not cross it though, I touched it with my foot and the boards shook from side to side!
On our drive home we came across sheep being herded in for shearing. The farm that was doing the herding has 17,000 sheep, and a lot of them went straight past us on the road. If any of you like Take That (or even know who they are!), you will like the second video of them streaming past my car!
The countryside looks very different to here in Orkney. We can use cars to go through the countryside not 4x4s did you go in one? if you did how noisy was the tarmac road?
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ReplyDeleteThe land is quite different here. It is quite hilly with a lot more rock on the hillsides than we would see in Orkney. Most people live in the town here, with very few people living out in the country. The Falkland Islands are also much larger than Orkney. For these reasons there are not as many roads as at home. To get to some places you have do drive off road over the muddy hills! I had a 4x4 to drive in but I stuck to the roads, so it wasn't too bad!
Best, Mr Ross