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Falklands celebrates the 150 years of Port Howard historic farming
Falkland Islands celebrated the 150 years of a farm in West Falkland at a ceremony held in Port Howard, honoring owners Christopher and Myles Lee that were presented with a plaque celebrating the century and a half of the farm being operational, at an historic Legislative Assembly held in the community hall last week. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWhere are the Argie swimmers Think?
Apr 08th, 2016 - 09:39 am - Link - Report abuse +1They are wimps!
Have a look at this… BBC reporter takes Antarctic dip - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35981205
British is best!
What swimmers...?
Apr 08th, 2016 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse -1These swimmers...?
http://puntonoticias.com/150903_mision-cumplida/
@1 The Voice
Apr 08th, 2016 - 10:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I actually saw this pic on another site a couple of weeks ago and I've been expecting to see pics of the swimmers in the sea taken from their support boat or getting out of the sea on the other side or putting the 250 rosaries on the graves of the fallen soldiers - but nothing.
As it is it's just a picture of 4 people dressed up in rubber suits and standing in the sea. They've obviously not been in the sea as they are perfectly dry.
Perhaps Think can give us a link to something more substantial.
Geeeeeee....
Apr 08th, 2016 - 10:43 pm - Link - Report abuse -1You anglos need everything served to you by Murdoch & Co., huhhhh?
Don't you know how to Google.
Ever heard of Youtube?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gM4bmsVYiT0
No I'm only a thick mick I've never heard of Youtube and isn't a google a big number or something
Apr 08th, 2016 - 10:49 pm - Link - Report abuse +1You ever heard of good manners - no I thought not but then you are a South American (allegedly)
Geeeeeee...., lads!
Apr 08th, 2016 - 11:21 pm - Link - Report abuse -1You Anglo boys need everything served by Daddy Murdoch..., huhhh?
Don't you know how to Google..., babykins?
Ever heard of Youtube..., dahlings?
Better...?
Dear me, Sink, the footage you linked to on YouTube doesn't really show very much at all. There was nothing reported in the press here and precious little in S. America about this monumental swim. The footage only shows the guys swimming in the sea, not swimming across the Sound. There's nothing of them making the other side. No dolphins with them and believe me there are hundreds in the Sound and they love having people to play with. No safety boat with them. Did they really swim the Sound? I have my doubts. No one saw them do it either. If they swam from San Carlos, as it says, they weren't seen by any of the land owners.
Apr 09th, 2016 - 12:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0I reckon they just did a bit of swimming and then came back to shore after a few minutes in the water, but, of course, I might be wrong. I would have thought they would have spoken to the Penguin News about their awesome feat. Wouldn't you?
Thanks for the YouTube link Think - looks fairly like that was NOT a crossing of Falkland Sound, unless they were more than doubling their distance. That looked to me like a swim within San Carlos water. If you were making the shortest Sound crossing it would be between Fanning Head and White Rock Bay - you would be nearly tripling your distance if you went from where I think that footage was filmed.
Apr 09th, 2016 - 06:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0#6
Apr 09th, 2016 - 08:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0The video proves NOTHING. It could not be used as proof that the swim was successful. It shows some wet - suited swimmers in the sea but nothing to identify the area in which the “swim” took place. You would have to be a local to verify the landmarks. I would have thought that the swimmers would have had a map on the video showing the proposed route. The only thing that rang true was the Argentinian obsession with tooting car horns and flag waving.
La nature et les couleurs de la vie.
Apr 09th, 2016 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Dans la tendresse
des illusions le
souffle du soleil,
consciemment,
décrit la pâleur
qui chante l'harmonie
de la neige
solitaire.
Francesco Sinibaldi
@6
Apr 09th, 2016 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse +1QED - no manners, must be the way you were brought up.
Looks to me all they did was go for a dip in protective clothing (Ah bless their little souls) them and then swam back to the same shore they set off from. More crap from the Argys
Apr 09th, 2016 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Beautiful picture of Port Howard at the top. I didn't make it to West Falkland during my week in the Islands last year, unfortunately.
Apr 10th, 2016 - 05:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Ever heard of Youtube..., dahlings?”
Apr 10th, 2016 - 11:21 am - Link - Report abuse +1YouTube! Well if it was on YouTube, it MUST be factual.
#14
Apr 10th, 2016 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Totally agree . I saw the sinking of HMS Invincible here.
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTOXGBYzz0U&nohtml5=False
The word is down here that they were rubber dummys. Of course they were dummys, they were Argies! What a bunch of liars and they didnt swim across at all so they were cowards. Lying cowards? Computes!
Apr 10th, 2016 - 04:40 pm - Link - Report abuse +1What's happened to “Think”? He seemed so full of himself and then he vanished!
Apr 10th, 2016 - 10:05 pm - Link - Report abuse +1#15 Clyde
Apr 11th, 2016 - 07:15 am - Link - Report abuse +1“Attacking HMS invincible” - another Argentine wet dream!
I would imagine it was difficult for them to procure the services of a Falkland Island support boat, unless they were able to bring their own. I wouldn't want to swim in open water for that distance without one. Would be interesting to hear if they actually did complete the crossing though.
Apr 11th, 2016 - 08:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0@19 James Marshall
Apr 11th, 2016 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse +1If they'd've done it they'd've been bragging about it to every news service they could find.
They made a big noise about how they were going to swim the Sound blah, blah, blah, and now they've been conspicuous by their silence. But their silence speaks volumes.
I don't no whether they were ever serious about swimming the Falklands Sound but I guarantee the the '2 weeks' training splashing about in the sea wasn't nearly enough preparation. My thought it that they got there, realised that the Falklands Sound is very wide (not the 2 mm it shows on the map), and then sensibly called it off.
Of course because of their macho pride they can never admit to calling it off, so they splashed about a bit in the water, took some photos, and have since kept a low profile so people don't start asking awkward questions like...what happened to the sponsorship money?
This is the usual Argentine modus operandi. Make a big splash in the news, count all your chickens before they've hatched, then go very quiet in the hopes no one notices just how big a fool you've made of yourself when it doesn't happen.
Just like the big splash the Argentine government made about buying aircraft from Israel, Brazil and China. All mouth and no trousers.
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