Spitsbergen with SV Antigua

Expec­ta­ti­ons are natu­ral­ly high when you spend 18 days tra­vel­ling Spits­ber­gen, but what the­se 18 days altog­e­ther had to offer excee­ded most, if not all, expec­ta­ti­ons. Regard­less if you think of the big ani­mals, the polar bears, wal­rus­ses and wha­les, all the other wild­life, birdcliffs, rein­de­er and polar fox, geese, ducks and other tun­dra dwel­lers, the sce­ne­ry with all its dif­fe­rent facets. The expe­ri­ence of tra­vel­ling this ama­zing land­s­cape, on Anti­gua, under sail, on shore during shor­ter excur­si­ons and lon­ger hikes.

Neit­her the wea­ther, which was part­ly pret­ty fog­gy, nor the fact that a cir­cum­na­vi­ga­ti­on was never an opti­on con­si­de­ring the ice con­di­ti­ons of that time could turn anything to the worse. Qui­te the oppo­si­te, all this was part of the trip and who would wan­ted to have anything any dif­fe­rent?

The triplog is Triplog (Ger­man only, pdf, 14 MB). Soon, a sli­de­show will appe­ar here (all par­ti­ci­pants will get the long ver­si­on on DVD).

Impres­si­ons from various parts of the jour­ney on the fol­lowing pages (see album).

Album

Click on thumb­nail to get the cor­re­spon­ding gal­le­ry.

Gal­le­ry 1
Kongsfjord

18 Pho­tos

Gal­le­ry 2
the Nor­thwest

21 Pho­tos

Gal­le­ry 3
Woodfjord

21 Pho­tos

Gal­le­ry 4
Hin­lo­pen Strait

36 Pho­tos

Gal­le­ry 5
Sorgfjord

17 Pho­tos

Gal­le­ry 6
The west coast

12 Pho­tos

Gal­le­ry 7
The west coast, con­ti­nued fur­ther south

12 Pho­tos

Gal­le­ry 8
Horn­sund

15 Pho­tos

Gal­le­ry 9
Bellsund and Isfjord

21 Pho­tos

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Spits­ber­gen with SV Anti­gua, Juni 30 – July 17, 2015

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