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Roofing Repairs Men repair storm damage to the Mechanical Building in the Settlement on Monday 5th June. |
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Sunday 4th June Stormy again with high winds and heavy rain. Some small stones have washed down Hottentot Gulch again but you are still able to get past. Out west on the Patches Plain the floods have blocked the road going to the sheep pen and on the way out to the Bluff. Part of the fence has been torn down and a lot of gravel and mud has covered the grass plain. |
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Saturday 3rd June The bulldozer beginning to clear the way for vehicles to be able to cross Hottentot Gulch after the storms of 2nd June. |
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Friday 2nd June Tristan suffered torrential rain and very heavy seas. Fishing boats are seen, right, being brought from their usual storage at the back of Calshot Harbour to the top of the cliff. |
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Photographs above left, left, & right were taken on Saturday 3rd June after the worst of the storm was over. These views illustrate Tristan's perennial problem of safe sea access, and the lucky break that the injured Bulgarian sailor could be evacuated to Camogli Hospital on 25th May during an otherwise stormy period when the harbour was closed on many days. |  |
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Settlement Area Storm Damage Parts of the road next to the Prince Philip Hall and other Settlement roads are broken up by Friday's heavy rain, and Hottentot Gulch was in full spate and brought down thousands of tonnes of boulders and gravel, spilling down the sheer cliff slopes and across the Settlement Plain. The photograph, left, taken on Saturday 3rd June shows the debris blocking the main road westwards towards the Potato Patches - 'Tristan's M1'! |
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