We spent day 6 at sea and arrived in Stanley on day 7.
Falkland Islands is a great place to see penguins as there are numerous penguin colonies on the island. We decided at the last minute (last night) to join the excursion to Volunteer Point to see King Penguins. It turned out to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
It was a long drive from the cruise port to Volunteer Point, including over an hour of off-road driving.
Once we arrived, we could see some penguins roaming around, including both magellanic penguins and king penguins. But we ignored magellanic penguins as we already saw them the other day.
The king penguin colony was a short distance away. There were over 2000 penguins there and they were loud!
There were also lots of fluffy baby penguins.
Many penguins were sitting on their eggs to incubate them, as the penguin on the right in the picture below show.
A little later we saw the same penguin walk with the egg and carefully check to make sure the egg was still intact.
In addition to magellanic penguins and king penguins, there was also a gentoo penguin colony nearby.
As we were heading back to the parking lot, some king penguins were walking back to their colony.
We also walked to the beach and saw some more king penguins there.
After spending about an hour and a half at Volunteer Point with the penguins, it was time to head back.
Back at the cruise port we wandered around for a little more sightseeing. There’s a church nearby. The arches next to the church were made of the giant jaw bones of two blue whales which I thought was pretty interesting.
Here’s a video of the king penguins we saw at Volunteer Point.