Lief­defjord – 10th July 2017

Mon
10 Jul
2017

It was one of the­se magi­cal arc­tic nights. Unf­or­gett­able. Drift ice glit­te­ring under the mid­ni­ght sun, warm colours, rug­ged moun­tains ever­y­whe­re around the fjords.

We woke up in Lief­defjord to be gree­ted by per­fect mir­ror images on the water and ven­tu­red on a long, lovely hike to enjoy grand vis­tas of the who­le area, from Reins­dyr­flya to Mona­co­breen all in one gre­at pan­ora­ma.

Gal­le­ry – Lief­defjord – 10th July 2017

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

Later, we had a good look at Mona­co­breen from a clo­ser distance, befo­re we crui­sed through the drift ice in Woodfjord again. We went clo­ser to the shore near Gråhu­ken to see Chris­tia­ne Ritter’s hut („A woman in the polar night“), whe­re we also fished a huge bit of gar­ba­ge out of the water. A flota­ti­on device from a buoy which bro­ke lose some­whe­re. Good to get it out of natu­re.

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