We anchored near Blanco Bay in Port William at 8.15 a.m. on a grey, drizzly morning, Port Stanley nestling behind low hills in Stanley Harbour off to the south. But by nine o’clock the sky had pretty well cleared - it was 10°C with 20-25 knots of wind across the bay - and Zodiac landings were deemed to be feasible so we set off for a nearby rocky beach. Up behind the beach was peaty, rocky soil with lichens and mosses, Diddle-dee (a soft dwarf shrub), Tussock Grass, and other native flora; but not a sight of a tree anywhere in the bay - as far as I could ascertain there are no native trees at all in the Falklands. In terms of fauna, a couple of Kelp Gulls was about all we saw while stretching
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