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included endearing family pictures, shots of the island during World War II, pictures

of various notables who have visited, including one of Margaret Thatcher on her way

to the Falklands in 1992. There were lots of pieces of old communication equipment

from the days when this was a major British station. There is still an important base

here for the British military but the communications effort is largely privatized now.

We were taken up to the little area called Two Boats where the island club sits,

passing on our way a donkey family of a male, two females and a couple of young.

They looked healthy and happy beside the roadway; evidently, they are not

considered noxious aliens yet because there is no eradication program working

against them. The Two-Boat Club is a large facility with a bar, an auditorium, a

restaurant, skittles lanes, swimming pool and landscaping attempts. It looks like a

typical suburban club except that the view from the terrace is pretty special. The sea

has such wonderful colors along the shoreline and out into the deeps.

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