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Bleaker Island is a 30 minute flight from Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands. It is a world away from 'civilization'.

The Island's only full time residents are its managers, who run both an organic sheep and beef farm and a lodge consisting of two cottages. 

A view of the lodge. Our cottage was the smaller one on the left.

 

A view of the pier used by the Shag colony's juveniles for flight lessons. A whale jaw bone is in the foreground. 

 

Because we rented one of the only two vehicles on...