Author Archives: Bob Davies

Building a chair in nature, constructed from found elements, is a simple idea about accommodating human-kind in the natural world. Just as a primitive hut provides shelter, so too a chair provides a place to rest the body in a[…..]

III I walk on ancient ground soft above permafrost absorbing what drifts from the south to the archipelago cadmium and mercury bio-diversity footprints polar bear, arctic fox, Svalbard reindeer carbon remain for years there are beds of pebbles on bedrock[…..]

I Who would have thought that such colour would grace the cliffs at Hoelfhalveys not white but of steel left year ‘round in the yard leaves left to rust to mulch in March I could never have imagined rivules of[…..]

David Buckland and I awoke at 3:45 this morning to join first mate, Renske Ritzema, on the morning watch. We hoisted anchor at Sorgfiorden on the island of Friedland to head south through Hinlopenstretet. Our hope was to get through[…..]

We’ve been at sea for five days now and the trend has been to have an adventure at shore in the morning and return to the Noorderlicht for lunch by 1:30. The afternoons are spent sailing and ‘blogging.’ It’s a[…..]

Comfortably cruising aboard the Noorderlicht through the blue of an Arctic high pressure system. Cold and clear we go between Western Spitsbergen Island and Prins Karls Forland Island due north through the Forland Sundet. We have had our early day[…..]