Fri
19 Jul
2024

Here comes the sun ☀️😃 final­ly, good wea­ther! So enjoya­ble, espe­ci­al­ly on the last full day of the jour­ney!

We got the blue sky in the after­noon, but during the mor­ning it was alre­a­dy warm wit­hout any wind. Some­thing that the mos­qui­tos lik­ed on Erd­mann­flya. A rather rare wild­life expe­ri­ence in Spits­ber­gen, but not com­ple­te­ly unhe­ard of. Humans are usual­ly not too fond of mos­qui­tos, but fish love them! To our gre­at sur­pri­se, we found fish in a small morai­ne pond at Tun­draod­den. In lar­ger lakes, of cour­se, but such a small pond in a rela­tively young (may­be 200 years) morai­ne? Stran­ge, but the­re they were. Natu­re is full of sur­pri­ses!

Bore­breen was the final stop, under a blue, sun­ny sky. This gla­cier is curr­ent­ly advan­cing. Stun­ning! Just compa­re to our visit last Sep­tem­ber (click here for the blog ent­ry, the last pic­tu­re in the gal­lery). The island whe­re we lan­ded back then is now 500-600 met­res behind the gla­cier front! 😲

Then it was just a few hours of sai­ling back to Lon­gye­ar­by­en, whe­re we spent the last evening on board in good spi­rits.

Pho­to gal­lery – Isfjord: Erd­mann­flya & Bore­breen – 17t July 2024

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Fri
19 Jul
2024

Also today the mor­ning was a bit grey, but in the end the wea­ther tur­ned out to be on our side and we could enjoy a gre­at hike in Bell­sund: from Fri­dt­jov­ham­na, a reason­ab­ly well-shel­te­red bay at the gla­cier Fri­dt­jov­breen, to Inge­borg­fjel­let fur­ther west. That is a beau­tiful area with lar­ge colo­nies of litt­le auks and a tun­dra plain with reinde­er, arc­tic foxes and geese. A won­derful place!

Neither the wea­ther nor any polar bear made life dif­fi­cult for us today, so we could enjoy being out­side pret­ty much the who­le day 🙂

Then it was time to set cour­se for Isfjord.

Pho­to gal­lery: Fri­dt­jov­ham­na-Inge­borg­fjel­let – 16th july 2024

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