Carcass Island, Falkland Islands
“I didn’t know there were donkeys on Carcass Island,” I say to Bill at 4 a.m. one morning as the sound of braying awakens us. Suddenly it hits us. What we think is the sound of donkeys is actually coming from the large numbers of Magellanic penguins (also known as Jackass Penguins) that inhabit the beach below the settlement. The chorus continues until the sun rises above the horizon. It 30-minute flight to Carcass Island from Pebble (our previous…