Thu
24 Jul
2014
Again, a day like a whole week. Actually far to much to digest it properly, that will come later. It started with 2 Fin whales feeding lazily around the ship at 6 o’clock in the morning, no more than 6 hours after last night’s bear sighting. A good night’s sleep is a good friend who is rarely visiting under the midnight sun.
Some exercise helps to forget that, and we got plenty of it in Lomfjord. Who would mind a few raindrops if you can have the view over Lomfjord and across Hinlopen Strait?
Discovering „new“ places is the salt in the soup for many travelers, certainly for me, and the opportunity came in Lomfjord. Just some time left before dinner to jump ashore on a little peninsula that nobody knows, where nobody ever goes ashore, as far as I know. The water near the shore was so deep that Captain Joachim parked the Antigua in the gravel to keep the ship stable for a while, we could have jumped down onto the beach from the bow.
The ruin of a trapper’s hut, exactly 90 years old now. Built of driftwood and stones, it must have been nice in its early days, small, though. Now, the wind is blowing through empty window frames.
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Several hundred thousands of Brünich’s Guillemots for dessert, served on amazing vertical basalt cliffs, a good smell of guano and a lot of fresh salty air. An amazing place!