Adventure Travel Blogs

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Photographic & Polar Bear Special - June 2011

Submitted by paulgoldstein on 20 June 2011 - 4:26pm.

Sunday 19th June, 2011

Sea ice is a moveable feast; not a regimented table d’hote menu. Today she served us just enough to frustrate the bow yet not enough to seduce the bears. But this critique denigrates its beauty as Gaudiesque sculptures shimmered and mosaics glinted, grouted temporarily to the midnight-blue surface. Fulmars flew sorties alongside both decks and squadrons of guillemots scythed through the gradually lifting nimbus.

Larger fauna showed more reserve tha...

Submitted by paulgoldstein on 19 June 2011 - 4:14pm.

Saturday 18th June, 2011 Hornsund

“The most remarkable mountains I have seen, are situated near HornSund, .
. . Horn Mount, or Hedge-hog Mount, so called from an appearance of spines on the top when seen in some positions, takes its rise from a small tract of alpine land, on the southern side of Horn Sound.”

William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions

So the drill for this expedition has been brutally broadcast, this merciless ...

Submitted by paulgoldstein on 18 June 2011 - 4:08pm.

Friday 17th June, 2011 Hornsund

"A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything."
Laurence Sterne

A wise man once said ‘it’s not the arriving, it’s the getting there’. He was wrong, but who cares now, the lines are thrown and the bow noses purposefully South East.

Right about time you read this, the signal will flicker then die on your cell phone....