Buenos Aires Harbor

We sailed from the Falklands and after two days at sea we arrived at Buenos Aires. Our first view was of the harbor in the foggy dark.

Red doors

Falklanders seem to like red doors.

Art?

Is this random? Or is it art?

The errant apostrophe

At Gypsy Cove there sat a vehicle that had a sign on its door: BONNER S TAXI'S. I thought the sign painter had made a little mistake, but no! every single taxi we saw had the same sign.

Good fortune

We had wonderful good fortune on this South American trip. The weather was sunny, cool (as expected), and we didn't get rained on through the whole trip. And the penguins are usually gone from the Falklands by early March (we were there March 9), but there they were - a big group of Magellanic Penguins on Gypsy Cove. Such good luck!

Lady Elizabeth

This is a much-photographed shipwreck near Stanley in the Falkland Islands. The barque Lady Elizabeth arrived in the Falklands in 1913 with a cargo of lumber out of Vancouver. She struck a rock, limped into Stanley, and was condemned as an insurance write-off. She acted as a storage hulk moored in Stanley Harbour for many years, until she broke her moorings in a storm in 1931 and drifted ashore to her present striking location in Whalebone Cove. (Thanks to Google Earth Hacks.)

Ferocious Falklands Cat

Oh, beware!

Whalebone Arch

Whalebone Arch in Stanley is made from the jawbones of two blue whales. It was built in 1933 to commemorate the centenary of British Rule in the islands.

Brush

And how about a flush while you're at it? In Stanley.

Stanley

We tendered in to Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands and this photo was taken from the tender. The entire population of The Falklands is a little over 3,000 people. At each stop on this South American cruise, we had a local guide. The guide that was the most difficult to understand was the Falklands guide and she was the only guide whose first language was English!

Falklands

Now we return to the cruise around the tip of South America and onward. After we rounded the cape we sailed for the Falkland Islands or as Argentina calls them - The Malvinas. We approached in the morning and here is the sunrise as we neared land.