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II I witness ice absorbed by the sea feeding her body of water warming current events on a bed she curtsies with the wind – swoons by the moon she rises and falls over again she resists – giving only[…..]
Rock concert
Video by Matt Wainwright.
Pocket monsters family picture
Not yet mentioned as crew members have been our small little friends and helpers: the pocket monsters. Deborah Warner is traveling under the guidance of her two little, brightly colored friends (which she got from a dear young friend to[…..]
Stuffed Polar Bears
Almost midnight; the Nooderlicht is moored in snow-blasted Fuglefjorden in north-west Svalbard, and we are all huddled together on the deck to watch the marvel of nature we’d been hoping we might witness; a polar bear diving in the freezing[…..]
Pteropods
At last, I had my first encounter with pteropods! This morning, I set off on the dingy with Nina and Aafke to search for them. I did a few plankton net trawls in Murchinson Fjord at Kinnvika Bay and I[…..]
KINNVIKA
We woke up in Kinnvika fjord in the north west of Svalbard. From the deck, we saw low hinterlands scattered with snow, rising to peaks; and in the distance a thin white line of sea ice trapped by the wind[…..]
Crew briefing and dinghy trip
Images by Nina Horstmann
The crew is on their way…
All 20 voyagers made it so far to Oslo. Excess luggage is over 150kg and the need for several empty water containers is still oblivious to some. And on we go. The next leg of the journey is Tromso and[…..]
Getting the gear together
Thanks for the short-term-donations of helpful ex-voyagers and others!