Month: June 2009
Polar Bear Sightings
We found ourselves positioned near Worsleyneset in Woodfjorden with a plan for going ashore after breakfast on one of the small nearby islands. Our scouting party had found a bear on the island and some people looking out from the bridge saw three or four others in the surrounding area. It wasn’t safe to land, […]
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Glaciers, Whales and Polar Bears
It’s Monday, June 29. We finished our day last night in Lillehockbreen with a visit to an enormous glacier of the same name. We cruised right up to its face after our BBQ dinner and stopped with the bow pointing to the glacier about 500 metres away from it. There was one other ship there, […]
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Good Photographic Days
Our last two days have been very enjoyable days in terms of taking pictures. I’ve taken over 300 with a lot of ‘experimenting’ with settings and trying out different compositions. We sailed until lunch time yesterday ( Saturday, June 27) and reached our first stop near Bourbonhamna on Recherchefjordan by about 4.00 pm. We […]
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A Wet Day with the Walrus
Wednesday, June 25th and we awoke to a grey wet and rainy day. We had a wake up call at 7.00 am and the breakfast as usual at 7.30. The ship was positioned off Dollerittnesset / Kopp Lee and we had a landing with a reported sighting of walrus on the beach. We were ready […]
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Sailing Along
Our day on Friday June 26th was somewhat inactive. By mid morning we were off AEkongen Island near Tusenoyane and attempted a landing. The sea seemed quite flat, but there was a gentle swell. On the ship it was hard to perceive, but in zodiacs it was more noticeable. It was creating waves on the […]
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Kittywake Landing
Day three (Wednesday, June 24) started out as a foggy day and ended as a beautiful fine day with warm sun. The temperature was a warm 5 degrees and there was very little wind. We were still at sea in the morning with our adjusted schedule. To fill in the time, we had some interesting […]
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First Days at Sea
It’s June 24 and I have been as busy as a one arm paper hanger. There are so many activities on the ship, that it’s hard to fit them all in. I woke up yesterday to find that we were in a broad fjord (Sundefjord) with some ice near the shore and large mountain peaks […]
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On With The Journey
I finished my time in Iceland on Monday, June 23, with a walk around the city of Reykjavik. . It was very quiet seeing that it was Sunday morning. I wandered down by the harbour and found some interesting vessels, one of which was a whaling ship that was out of the water on a […]
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Landmannalauger
My final tour yesterday, was to somewhere very different. My first day tour took me around the Golden Circle – a set of standout sites and cultural places near Reykjavik. The second was to see scenery, but this tour was to a volcanic desert and a geothermal site named Landmannaluger. I understand that this loosely […]
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Iceland’s South Coast
Yesterday was a long day of sight seeing. We travelled around to the town of Vik and explored the coast. I didn’t get back to Reykjavik until 8.00 pm and it was nearly 9.30 pm after I stopped of for dinner in town centre. Iceland has three large ice caps and we skirted around the […]
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Iceland Golden Circle Tour
Today was really good. The weather was fine with a temperature of about 14c. I set off on the first of three one-day tours, this one to some of the stand-out attractions near Reykjvick. It also answered some of the questions that I had formulated from some of my observations. Our first stop was at […]
Read MoreTravelling to The End of the Earth
I think that if you dug a hole in your Melbourne backyard through the centre of the earth, you would actually come out in the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere south west of England. Iceland isn’t that far from that spot and I feel as though I am close to being on the opposite side of the […]
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