Arctic Fever – Days 8 & 9 – Pieced Out
Day 8 July 7, 2022 Hornsund We sailed towards the fjords in Hornsund, known for its frozen landscape and first discovered by Jonas Poole, a British explorer who named Hornsund […]
Day 8 July 7, 2022 Hornsund We sailed towards the fjords in Hornsund, known for its frozen landscape and first discovered by Jonas Poole, a British explorer who named Hornsund […]
July 6, 2022 Varsolbukta, Bellsund In the A.M. we chilled out and sat through slides of bird migration and an instructive assessment of photos shot by hobbyists onboard. The ship […]
July 5, 2022 Monacobreen – North West Svalbard When I think of Monaco, I roll my eyes. But what do I know? It’s not just about lavish lifestyles, yachts or […]
July 4, 2022 Pushing north…80 ‘ 52N Dream – Laid eyes on groups of polar bears wandering around from ice sheet to ice sheet, some with cubs trailing behind, some […]
July 3, 2022 By now, I settled in to the routine. In between looking out for wildlife and stuffing our faces, we sat through presentations of nature related photograph analysis, […]
July 2, 2022 Somewhere up on the Northwest corner was Indre Norskoya. Gloomy skies and intermittent rain reflected what went down here 400 years ago. Political and commercial chaos threatened […]
Day 1: June 30, 2022 – Longyearbyen After a 3 hour flight from Oslo, we made it to Longyearbyen and boarded the Polar Expedition Ship a couple of minutes away […]
It all happened out of the blue. Back in October 2021, I said yes to a photo of a polar bear and a city I could hardly pronounce. I booked […]
When in Budapest…stay in Budapest. After an awesome week in Budapest, we took the train down to Balatonfured for some old style revolutionary R&R, pun intended. As we pulled out […]
I wanted to go with the flow. This break wasn’t about ticking the must-dos, compiling a list of art galleries, seeing an opera, or cooking up a food wish list. […]