Horn­sund – 16th August 2016

Tue
16 Aug
2016

Due to the night shift on the wheel, I miss the first landing in Horn­sund, but later I hear of a litt­le hike, reinde­er, arc­tic sku­as and a gla­cier as I join group life again around mid day.

Hard­ly anyo­ne has real­ly slept well last night becau­se of the move­ments of the boat, so a rela­xed litt­le walk at Gnå­lod­den is the per­fect choice for the after­noon. It is pure plea­su­re to lie on dry tun­dra near the bird cliff – the kit­ti­wa­kes are still the­re, making a lot of noi­se – and let the eye wan­der over the arc­tic land­scape.

What a life, what a land!

We also have a look at Wan­ny Woldstad’s home in Horn­sund, name­ly in Hyt­te­vi­ka. She is the one who wro­te the pre­vious sen­tence in her book about her adven­tur­ous life as a fema­le hun­ter here in the 1930s. The hut in Hyt­te­vi­ka, built in 1907, got some serious main­tainan­ce ear­lier this som­mer. Good job. Now she is rea­dy for ano­ther 100 years. (the­re is a pan­ora­ma tour of this hut on this web­site).

Gal­lery – Horn­sund – 16th August 2016

Click on thumb­nail to open an enlar­ged ver­si­on of the spe­ci­fic pho­to.

Then we are loo­king for­ward to a calm night at anchor. But some of the swell is still rol­ling in here, so it is not as calm as we had been hoping for. As also the wind is picking up and the anchor alarm is going for the third time, Hein­rich lifts the anchor in the ear­ly mor­ning hours and we start steam­ing north.

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