Kategori: vilda djur


  • You have no idea how much I’ve missed hiking. Every day I see Ånnfjället from my window and I hear it calling me, so it was really almost a relief that I could finally put on my hiking boots and hit the trail. But before I got there, I drove by the crane nest to…

  • Time is catching up with me. I’ve always said that age is nothing but a number, you’re only as old as you feel, blah blah blah. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve had to accept that my body does not agree with my head and it’s showing its real age. I hurt my right…

  • Just like last spring, the roe deer are spending a lot of time in the fields around the house. I see them every day now, at most it was eight of them but in recent days the biggest group has consisted of six individuals. Sometimes it’s only two, sometimes three, so I’m not sure if we…

  • I don’t always have to get to the top of a mountain… sometimes it’s nice to just walk around it. So I drove to Bruksvallarna and took a very long time walking up to Kariknallen, because there are a lot of flowers here and I was equipped with a macro lens. Shooting more macro was…

  • Having gone to bed after midnight (and having had trouble falling asleep), it took me a moment to figure out what’s going on when our guide was outside shouting ”A big whale! A big whale!”. But we got up and there we were on deck at 3am, shooting the plumes of what turned out to…

  • We did an early landing to check out more ruins related to arctic expeditions in Mosselbukta. This is the place where Nordenskiöld had to spend the winter in 1872–1873. There was very little wind, but it was snowing, so it feels even more lucky to have had sunshine yesterday with the polar bears! Then we…

  • This is it! We were woken up after 1am, they have spotted a polar bear!! So on with the warm clothes and get the camera, and out on deck to look at that one thing that I really came here for (but had half accepted that we wouldn’t see when I realised how little ice…

  • During the night, we passed the northernmost point of Spitsbergen, which means that we were 80 degrees north! I missed that, not that there would have been anything to shoot there out on the sea in overcast weather anyway. We had anchored during the early hours of the morning and I got out on deck…

  • We have a lot of roe deer around here, more than I ever saw in Föne. I’ve seen them regularly walk past the house and amazingly, they are not as shy here as they were in Föne. A few times I’ve come surprisingly close while walking or cycling on the driveway and the animals just look…

  • It’s the last day of the Easter break, thank god! I can’t take this any more. Grey skies, wind, warm temperatures, this is the worst Easter since… ehrm… well, it hasn’t been a good Easter. We’re supposed to have sunshine! So today I gave up. I had planned to go skiing but I just simply…