FIPASS - Floating Interim Port And Storage Solution.
We are currently reviewing facilities for deep-water ports - for an "Interim" solution, this one has done Ok for nearly 25 years.
A discussion currently rages as to whether a new port should be deeper water, outside the harbour...
At the moment, this is a view from our kitchen window.

As Stanley has grown, it has marched Eastwards...
The cemetary is now between "new" Stanley and the old bit. The pink roofs at the top centre are lookout Industrial Estate - bane of my life.
My office is ringed - next door is Shorty's diner.
The road snaking away to the South leads to Eliza Cove - the tip...
Between my office and the Cemetery, the Wood of Remembrance has a tree planted for every Serviceman to have died in 1982 - and since.

How do you stop sheep walking round the end of a fence when the tide is out?
Easy - make sure the fence goes down to the low tide mark.
Luckily, there is only 2m tide here.
Pallets are one of the two most useful things in Camp, I think - old containers are the other.

Here is how to end off a fence...

Some of the Islands especially are incredibly beautiful and you know that there are only one or two other people there...

Here is the bay by Carcass Island Settlement

We went to Sea Lion Island (FIDC own the island and are lessors of the Lodge) - here is Cow Bay, where there are Elephant Seals, Gentoo and Magellanic penguins.
White sand with hints of pink in it abounds in the islands; the terns got a bit aggressive the first time I walked down here (three minutes from the Lodge) but when we walked down the second day, (couldn't get on the early flight - oh dear) the Gentoos (inquisitive and social) and Magellanic (timid and noisy like an ass - so named "Jackass" penguins) were all going to sea when they had gathered a quorum. The Sea Lions are the other side of the island...

Port Howard from the ground.
Here is the Tamar alongside - note the delicate way the car's get on board..
We are currently building ramps for the new ferry - which will be a ro-ro.
We are assured...

Later on, the bullocks in the trailer on the right gave Myles Lee a pungent reminder that both ends are dangerous. They spent the journey in crates on deck - Myles took his overalls off, or he would have had to do the same.

There are quite clear difference in the geology across the islands.
Lafonia (named after a M. Lafone - a French gentleman) is very flat...
I suspect that the road builders enjoyed this for a change...

Mark was on the West for a Wool Company Annual General Meeting
The plane got him there by 10:30 for a 6:00 meeting...
Here's a cove out of the wind at Fox Bay - the man-made aquaculture frame doesn't seem out of place.

Here is Port Howard from the air.
Taking off and the journey back were fun - wind speeds of 65 knots and a plane with a top airspeed of 120 knots.
Imagine driving at 100mph over potholes...

Wool is still the third largest element in the economy (fourth if you count Government as the first - which is is really). Here is the clip from Pebble Island waiting to be loaded onto the Tamar, the local cargo ship.
Tamar is run by FIDC... hands-on regional economic development!
12 months hard work all in one place. Wouldn't it be interesting if we could see such tangible results!

We had to leave before the tide came in enough to get a better picture - we'll try again next year.

Here's a view we never tire of - the view from our lounge and dining room...

The "Lady Liz" - the best preserved wreck in the harbour (well, of a ship, anyway).

Port Howard Cemetary.
The most amazing range of ages at death - no clear pattern...
And just one soldier from '82.