Wow, what a day, I was expecting, it to be icey cold... Rain, maybe snow!! But it was very pleasant, nice to be back in an English speaking country... And driving on the correct side of the road.
I did the Falklands war tour, based off the 1982 was between Argentina and the UK... I actually learn some new bits of information, that surprised me... Sounds like in '82 the UK was looking at a lease solution to the Falklands... The Argentinian government miss interpreted this, and invaded... Not expecting the UK to reclaim... SAS arrived in the Falklands, 14 days after the first Argentinian forces landed... Damn submarine must have been fast... Also learnt that Argentinian had sent special forces to Spain, to attack British ships in Gibraltar... They we're captured by Spain... Guessing tipped off by MI6... That could have turned very ugly... If they had of succeed... with the conflict going wider to NATO .... Attack one... Attack all..
Anyway... Falklands is a pretty quiet place... Not many people everyone has a 4wd, unlike NZ, they actually need them..... 3000 in total, main industry is squid fishing, and tourists... Also... They have found alot of offshore oil.... Average salary is 44,000 UK pounds a year... Not bad
They have only 6 pub's, and 2 supermarkets.. if you could call them that...
The population, is very pro UK, total reverse of the lecture I had been to the previous day
Remains of an Argentinian Chinook helicopter.. was taken out by some sea harriers, in an earlier morning raid, damn bearings still move and work...as if they were new after 38 years in the weather...
The rock runs... these are everywhere... amazed the British forces navigated though this at night... ideal leg and ankle breaker's
