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Hi from the Falkland Islands!!
Saw your site on MDOCUK of which I am a lifetime member.
Currently working on contract down here and have a 90/92( indeterminate age) L300 Chamonix which is ideal to get around as there is very little paved road outside of the capital(!!) Port Stanley and she goes anywhere a landrover can.
Got just over 234,000kms on the clock,does around 26-7 mpg ( our speed limit is max 40mph!!),doesn't use oil between changes and usually fires first kick.
I use it mainly on my days off with the seats down as a bed camping out.

Ian.

fostlongstrider wrote:Got just over 234,000kms on the clock

Don't tell me you put all those kilometres on in the Falklands ?!?! I may not have ever been there, but I know they aint that big!

Welcome to the club!

Hi
She was an import from Japan,secondhand,there are quite a few of them here,originally used by the taxi companies who sold them on when they got the L400s.
A couple of our St Helena workforce bought 3 of them as a job lot and made 2 good ones,I bought 1 of them last February as I wanted to get around the islands on my days off,so am converting it to a basic campervan.the other is a crystal roof 7 seater.Mine is an 8 seater low roof Black over Silver P25W

Ian

Doesn't take much to camperize. Just folding the seats flat goes a long way, and works for short trips or just a few nights. I took out the 3rd row seat and put in a platform that, combined with the 2nd row folded flat, makes a great sleeping platform. Also give much more storage space underneath. This forum has quite a few threads on mild conversions, just search for "camping" or "sleeping".

I'm ex Army so seats down and a sleeping bag is a way lot better than some places I have slept.
I will be bringing an air mattress(probably double so I can spread out) and an electric air pump for speed of inflation from my next home leave,I will then be in luxury.
Already have a gas cooker and a small 12 volt fridge for the beer etc.

Ian.

Hi
We don't have a lot of choice here Falkland Islands Comany have a virtual monopoly and things can be expensive to buy here.
On the Airbridge I am limited to 27kg and GBP16/kg over that so not a lot can be brought with you.But as I said before I have slept in a lot of worse places so not to fussy about luxury items.

Ian.

I'm intrigued to read how well your Delica does in the Falklands - as if there was any doubt on the subject. Welcome aboard!

Every now and then I toy with going on a trip somewhere a little off the beaten path, and the Falklands are a destination I've looked at. The flights are reasonable, once you figure out that you must tell the online travel agency web page that you're going to Mount Pleasant, and that the flights are on Saturday from Santiago via Punta Arenas.

I know some people who went on a flight from Punta Arenas across Antarctica to see the eclipse in 2003 from the air. I was strongly tempted but didn't bite, ending up going to Turkey for the 2006 eclipse instead. They said the flight alone was a totally amazing experience (14 hours on a brand-new LAN A340), and the eclipse only added to the amazingness.

...laura

fostlongstrider wrote: and a small 12 volt fridge for the beer etc.

Ian.

Well then, that takes care of everything.

marsgal42 wrote: Every now and then I toy with going on a trip somewhere a little off the beaten path, and the Falklands are a destination I've looked at.

That would be an amazing vacation, although I think I'll wait until the kids are older and perhaps take my wife there.

Hi Laura

You should have seen the comet we had in the sky back in 2007.
If you want to see some pics of the place my website is:-

www.fostlong-photography.com

Ian.