Sail yacht Hollinsclough Goodbye Falklands

Fifteen thousand miles of World tour on sail yacht Hollinsclough, Southern hemisphere summer. Life in the Falklands, Came for a week, stayed a month. Girl Guides for World thinking day, Adventure 100 presentations, Sunday school and the Cathedral of Christchurch with Rev Dr Richard. Sea Cadets for mast climbing, Albatross in the sky, HMS York for cocktails, a tour of the ship Clyde and a look at the diesel electric fisheries vessel Pharos with skipper Chris. Garden Party with the Governor and a look under the snooker table for Royal signatures.

Girls in school, best mates Tamsin and Lizzy Two cancelled sports days for bad weather. A frenzy of art class, sport and proper academic curriculum. Great score in the mock Spanish O levels to check the learning of Chile.

Argentineans knocking on the door of the oil research rig while we checked out the Typhoon fighters with JD of 1435 squadron. Battlefield tours and Gipsy Cove penguins, FIDF hall for a briefing with General Vaux then walking the minefield with Guy. Museum for the lighthouse key and trip on the moor with Doctor Rowlands. Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding dinners, Liddas best home made delight between school lessons, junior and senior school, even a swimming pool! Then a Chilean earthquake before we were becalmed in turning low pressure weather holding us like Velcro to this Island of friendship. Horticultural show to find Annas best Battenburg cake and then time for a marathon race with the DADs team. A little over five hours at five degrees C in 30 knots of wind. Last post with the mail girls for so many picture stamps and then goodbyes.

Tuesday March 16^th A goodbye evening, so sad to say goodbye, home made cakes and busicuits galore.

Exiting the Port William Sound from the Narrows of Stanley twelve local.

51.40.00S 57.49.00W 

Typhoon flypast, so close we could see him wave, came in low over the water and turned verticle up the mast, Epic!

Sailing for St Patricks Day 105 degrees bound South Georgia.