Fri
5 Jul
2024

A day in Kross­fjord, again with the best of wea­ther. Fjor­ten­de Juli­buk­ta tur­ned out to be well shel­te­red from the stiff bree­ze that was blo­wing in the main arm of the fjord. We could enjoy a wide ran­ge of nature’s won­ders, from the bird cliff which included a few rare puf­fins and even a very rare razor­bill, to the “han­ging gar­dens” with a beau­tiful flower car­pet inclu­ding some rare spe­ci­es such as polar dan­de­l­ion (Tar­a­xa­cum arc­ti­cum) and Arc­tic alpi­ne fle­a­ba­ne (Eri­ge­ron humi­lis) and final­ly the gla­cier at the head of the bay.

Tal­king about gla­ciers: the migh­ty Lil­lie­höök­breen is one of Krossfjord’s scenic high­lights, despi­te of a sub­stan­ti­al mass loss during recent deca­des.

Pho­to gal­lery – Kross­fjord: Fjor­ten­de Juli­buk­ta & Lil­lie­höök­breen – 04th July 2024

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Thu
4 Jul
2024

We enjoy­ed the day in Kongsfjord, whe­re we expec­ted the best wea­ther available. We didn’t reg­ret it!

Ossi­an Sars­fjel­let has some gre­at views over Kongsfjord, a mixed sea­bird colo­ny of Brünich’s guil­l­emots and kit­ti­wa­kes and last but not least an impres­si­ve spe­ci­es ran­ge of flowers, inclu­ding some rare ones such as arni­ca angusti­fo­lia.

Blom­strand­hal­vøya is one of Kongsfjord’s beau­tiful clas­sics, from the old marb­le mine of Ny Lon­don / Marb­le Island to the ele­va­ted parts such as Brat­lie­kol­len which has a sple­ndid pan­o­r­amic view of Kongsfjord.

Pho­to gal­lery – Kongsfjord: Ossi­an Sars­fjel­let & Blom­strand­hal­vøya – 03rd July 2024

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Wed
3 Jul
2024

Things hap­pen­ed quick­ly, the wea­ther was gre­at so made as much as pos­si­ble out of the day. Wal­ru­ses were high on the wish­list. We found them in For­lands­und, tog­e­ther with a lot of kit­ti­wa­kes. A love­ly com­bi­na­ti­on 🙂

We con­tin­ued to Ny-Åle­sund, grab­bing the oppor­tu­ni­ty to have the place to our­sel­ves wit­hout any lar­ge ship the­re. Nice!

Pho­to gal­lery – From For­lands­und to Ny-Åle­sund – 02nd July 2024

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Mon
1 Jul
2024

Today we took off again, this time with SV Mean­der! 18 days of Spits­ber­gen, that’s a lot. We are loo­king for­ward to the adven­ture!

And it was a good start: we enjoy­ed a love­ly litt­le evening crui­se in Ymer­buk­ta, enjoy­ing the evening light at the gla­cier of Esmark­breen.

And as we were just about to call it a day, we sud­den­ly saw a polar bear fami­ly at Alk­hor­net 🙂

Pho­to gal­lery – From Lon­gye­ar­by­en to Ymer­buk­ta and Alk­hor­net – 01st July 2024

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