Thanks to the Falkland Islands Company, the Wave Dancer has been renovated at VT Halmatic Shipyard in Portsmouth.
Photo (c) VT Halmatic Shipyard - Wave Dancer at a top speed of 29.5 kts in the Solent
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Not everyone from outside can receive advice from Tristanians, like the man in the picture.
Photo (c) J. Brock (SARTMA - TdC) With Tristan in the background, a tourist receives advice from a Tristanian about the wildlife on Nightingale Island.
It takes a day on Tristan to do what it takes Falkland Islanders four months to do - shear their sheep.
Photos (C) Sarah Glass (Tristan Times) The large sheep pens where the flocks are kept after the gather.
True to form, the Christmas mail arrived late - and it wasn't all for the Island.
Photo (c) Sarah Glass (Tristan Times) - the Edinburgh from the lower flanks of the 1961 volcano