Opening up after pandemic

Opening up after pandemic

After a 996 day break, caused by the global pandemic, we are enthusiastically welcoming the return of our cruise ship guests this season.
New road

New road

Our private road to Bluff Cove Lagoon was completed during the pandemic. It means that our guests can now come all the way to the penguins by minibus and that the journey time is only 30 minutes from the pier. This means that we can offer guests two hours to enjoy the...
Film of our tour

Film of our tour

Square, our credit card facilitators, sent down a film crew just before the pandemic, this is the video they made. Read more here:...
Selvedge Magazine

Selvedge Magazine

Windswept Woolens Tea & Tweed in the Falkland Islands From her childhood home in Cumbria, Nicola Kilmartin has baked, grilled and stirred her way around the world working as a cook, in salmon fishing camps in Northern Russia and on horseback treks in Outer...
40th Anniversary of 1982 war

40th Anniversary of 1982 war

Over 2022 we are welcoming veterans for the 40th anniversary of the Falkland War. We will never forget the sacrifices they made for our freedom.
BBC’s Island Parish – Falkland Islands

BBC’s Island Parish – Falkland Islands

Bluff Cove starred in both series of the BBC’s Island Parish – Falklands. Due to popular demand the BBC has recently repeated both series on BBC2. Radio Times article – Follow An Island Parish to the Falklands Here Hattie is pictured being filmed picking Diddle...
Hattie and Kevin on BBC Radio 4 – On Your Farm

Hattie and Kevin on BBC Radio 4 – On Your Farm

Radio presenter Peter Gibbs and producer Matthew Teller meet Hattie and Kevin Kilmartin, Falkland Islands farmers with 35,000 acres of sheep grazing, who diversified into penguin tourism. Wool from their flock of 3,000 sheep is exported to Scotland. There it’s woven...
Special guests at Bluff Cove

Special guests at Bluff Cove

We loved having TV wildlife presenters Steve Backshall with his film crew and Nigel Marven down at Bluff Cove Lagoon. On Nigel’s second visit he filmed an episode of his “Cruise Ship Adventure” TV series at the Lagoon. During both visits he swam in the sea! Nigel...
Awards

Awards

Bluff Cove Lagoon Tours has just been awarded “Best Wildlife Tour Company 2017 – Falkland Islands” in the LUX magazine Hospitality Awards. We are most proud to have won Seatrade’s “Innovative Shorex Award” which we went to Hamburg to collect. We have also won...
Veterans

Veterans

Every year we are delighted to welcome back veterans of the 1982 war and to have the opportunity to express our gratitude. This year we have hosted the Welsh Guards and the Gunners. From previous pilgrimages we have enjoyed visits from the Gurkhas, 42 Commando led by...