Bertha's Beach
A long white-sand beach near Mount Pleasant, with a gentoo penguin colony, seabirds and wildflower-lined coast, a good penguin option if you cannot book a remote tour.
Bertha’s Beach lies on the south shore of East Falkland, on Fitzroy Farm land near Mount Pleasant Airport. Its long stretch of white sand and clear blue water rival those of the tropics, and behind the beach is a colony of gentoo penguins, where Falkland steamer ducks, petrels and wildflowers are also common. It is about an hour’s drive from Stanley, with the final section on farm tracks, and permission from the farm must be arranged in advance. Visitors are few and the environment is unspoiled, so it can be combined with Bluff Cove Lagoon on the same day.
Opening hours
Open all day (farm permission required)
Nearby sights
- Bluff Cove Lagoon
- Mount Longdon
- Mount Tumbledown
- Government House, Stanley
- 1982 Liberation Memorial
- Historic Dockyard Museum
- Christ Church Cathedral & Whalebone Arch
- Ross Road Waterfront, Stanley