Wed
1 Aug
2018

Still the same day. Sud­den­ly it cle­ared com­ple­te­ly up, blue sky, bright sun, calm seas! What a pan­ora­ma, what a view! As if it had not been enough like this, we were wel­co­med in Kongsfjor­den by a lar­ge pod of Belugas. It must have been far more than 100, they were just ever­y­whe­re!

Kongsfjord

We still had time to make a litt­le detour to a coas­tal cave on Blom­strand. The con­di­ti­ons could not have been bet­ter, so we just made use of the oppor­tu­ni­ty. It was the first time that I mana­ged to take a pho­to of that cave that I was hap­py with. Good stuff! Thanks to a litt­le rock ledge in the cave that I could step on, my 11-24 mm wide-ang­le len­se and a flash­light. Yeah!

Kongsfjord

Kongsfjord

Kongsfjord

Kongsfjord

Not much later we went along­side in Ny-Åle­sund. What a gol­den evening! Bright suns­hi­ne, no wind whatsoe­ver. Of cour­se we wal­ked around, took pho­tos or just enjoy­ed. A good­night-beer in the mid­night sun roun­ded a gre­at day off, much to our delight.

Ny-Åle­sund

Ny-Åle­sund

Ny-Åle­sund

Ny-Åle­sund

Ny-Åle­sund

Ny-Åle­sund

Ny-Åle­sund

Wed
1 Aug
2018

In For­lands­und, we made a first landing to get some first impres­si­ons of the arc­tic natu­re clo­se-up. A litt­le walk on Prins Karls For­land to get some tun­dra under our rub­ber boots. A bit grey, but still a lot to see. Later, we found some wal­rus on a nar­row spit of land fur­ther north in For­lands­und.

Sel­vaa­gen

Sel­vaa­gen

Sel­vaa­gen

Sel­vaa­gen

Sar­stan­gen

Sar­stan­gen

Sar­stan­gen