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Stanley is a weathered blue-collar outpost town on a desolate island teaming with marine wildlife. It’s not a place for ‘culture’ seekers, antique shoppers, or fine dining connoisseurs. An hour’s walk outside Stanley and it’s a place of vast horizons, intense solitude, and penetrating silence. The wild and windswept coast, and ubiquitous boglands/peatlands are reminiscent of the UK, Netherlands, and other Northern Europe lands. For an American, it is otherworldly. The closest similar geography is alpine tundra. The town has a handful of quaint cafes and pubs for socializing after a day-long excursion . . . that doesn’t necessarily need transport. There is a lot of countryside (like Two Sisters mtn) and coast (like Gypsy Cove) to be visited on foot or by bicycle. The museum is small but well done, esp. on sailing history. Natural history is very cursory. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, Stanley is the only town of note for basing distant excursions. Bike packing would be an awesome alternative. I was puzzled why there was not an equestrian outing business, as that form of tramping would be quite exhilarating and able to cover a lot of camp land in a day’s outing; even overnighting w/pack horses or mules.