What to do on a Thursday evening after work… go to the sand dunes at Yorke Bay (15 minutes outside Stanley) and watch the Gentoo penguins coming ashore for the evening, starting to pair up and thinking about nests…

Gentoos live on the Islands all year round and are very common and lovely to watch.

They surf into the beaches in the waves and suddenly pop up out of the water as they come ashore. Certainly keen to get away from the shallow water/beach line – presumably to avoid various predators that prey on them in the shallows where they have less rooom to manouever and escape.

It does feel like such a privilege to be able to do this for the next four years!