It was a lovely wee watering hole in Mare Harbour, Falkland Islands. Even more remote! Closed by the Fun Police in HQ BFFI
Thanks for sharing that Adie, a lot of decisions had to be made after those strikes, like having done away with guns on fighters and relying on missiles those Mig 21's where an awesome piece of kit for the time. and misjudging the range of those sam's
I never got as far as the Falkland Islands But I did get posted to Ascension Island to enjoy the sunshine
Penguins and the local bennies to play with you did not miss much Dilli, Ascension runway has been out of use for ages now but I bet it would have been sorted if Pritti Patel had got her way to use Ascension as a refugee camp.
Thanks for posting that, Adie P. Real life is better than fiction. What a great read about great men.
I never set foot ont Falklands. Some of our lads did, mainly t'fleet air arm guys. Some ot ships company did exchanges with army lads on shore. I never set foot on land for 5.5 months.
I was there on HMS dumbarton castle for 6 months, stuck in 1 place. 2 days before I flew out, a rope got itself around the prop shaft, bent it and that was that. Cost more to fix it (there were only 2 built hms leeds castle) than to build another so it got towed back (after I left) and scrapped. Lot's of time spent on duty at 12-4am, watching vultures and penguins!
Wow! The Falklands has changed by the looks of it. Looks almost civilised! Spent a year of my life down there in two x 6 month stints (early 83 and 84). There only was one main harbour in Stanley. The Wildlife was so unused to seeing humans that the birds (feathered variety) would just land on you if you lay down. I remember actually being able to hold a penguin without it struggling at all On a pretty awesome story we went to South Georgia and 6 of us got off to explore the old whaling station for the day. Strange to be the only people on the island. My second name is "Sprott" which is not exactly common but on exploring the six graves in the old whaling station graveyard, one of them was some distant relation! The chances of me getting off the ship and the name being on the graveyard must have been millions to one.
The photo is fairly recent with the new ro-ro berth. Didn’t look like that 25 yrs ago! I best remember Commerson’s Dolphins chasing small boats and the LCVP like mini Orca - which are of course dolphins.
