Etikett: svalbard
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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…
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We spent the whole day in Kongsfjorden. Our first landing was also the first proper hike of the trip (if 2 km can be called proper), as we walked up a black-legged kittywake bird cliff. This was the first time I’ve seen any flowers in any significant numbers, and it was interesting to see how tiny…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The nice weather in Longyearbyen didn’t follow us on the way north, because the morning was rainy. Or snowy – wet snow. We did our first zodiak excursion (or landing, as it was officially called) after breakfast, and it was rough. The wind wasn’t all bad, but having that wet snow slammed in your face… yeah…
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We had the morning to ourselves so we went down to the eider ducks again and it was a good move, the light was better. We also saw Svalbard reindeer and oh boy are they strange… our first reaction was, a goat?! They are stocky with short feet. Only the antlers are the same as…
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I had a morning flight with a stopover in Tromsö. We had to get out of the plane with our carry-on and then through the passport control and back to the plane. There was some confusion as to where the passport control was (I wasn’t the only confused person!) because one sign said Arrivals and…