Adventure Travel Blogs

Monday, 25th July, 2011
Isfjorden
 
The ice was here, the ice was there, the ice was all around.
It cracked and growled and roared and howled like noises in a swound.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -  “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
 
I will keep this brief for it is imperative not to throw too much loquacious leather, the adjectival arsenal’s powder thankfully is still dry for tomorrow night’s finale. Mother Nature has opened her...

Sunday, 24th July, 2011
Bellsund
 
“Give me this glorious ocean life, this salt-sea life, this briny, foamy life, when the sea neighs and snorts, and you breathe the very breath that the great whales respire!  Let me roll around the globe, let me rock upon the sea; let me race and pant out my life, with an eternal breeze astern, and an endless sea before.”   

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Friday, 22nd July, 2011
Northern Spitsbergen

“In memories we were rich.  We had pierced the veneer of outside things.  We had suffered, starved and triumphed, groveled yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole.  We had seen God in his splendor, heard the text that nature renders.  We had reached the naked soul of man.” 

Thursday 21st July, 2011                        
Northern Spitsbergen

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation... I wish to live deliberately and face only the essential facts of life, and learn what it has to teach and not, when it comes time to die, discover that I had not lived”                             
Henry David Thoreau

Oh My! I will try to keep some chronology here but it may be ...