After a 996 day break, caused by the global pandemic, we are enthusiastically welcoming the return of our cruise ship guests this season.
]]>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 penguins and the other delights at Bluff Cove Lagoon and still leave time for them to look around Stanley.
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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 Mongolia. Until one day, while cooking in Scotland, she saw an ad for a cook in the Falkland Islands…
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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 Dee berries with the vicar and his wife.
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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 into an unique Falkland Tweed to be sold to the tourists who arrive at their farm to see the enormous Gentoo penguin colony that makes its home in 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 returns for the third time later this season. We also really enjoyed hosting TV celebrity chef Phil Vickery and Chilean chef Christian Correa who was filming for his Entrechef TV series.
Filming Chilean TV Entrechef Cristian Correa by the penguin rookery.
]]>Kevin receiving the Seatrade Award in Hamburg
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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 their Colonel Nick Vaux and Peter Cameron, commanding officer of “3 Commando Brigade” helicopters, pictured here with Toby laying a wreath to fallen comrades at the Ajax Bay 1982 field hospital on San Carlos water.
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