Gallery 2: Northwards, into Woodfjord

Initi­al­ly the idea was just to break the long pas­sa­ge to the north coast up with just one short landing, some­whe­re, but then … it tur­ned out to be two landings, not the lon­gest ones ever, but gre­at ones. Polar histo­ry in Vir­go­ham­na, har­bour seals and a love­ly group of wal­ru­ses in Smee­ren­burg, gre­at wea­ther, gre­at light … yes, good stuff.

We ente­red Wood­fjord a cou­ple of hours later. Mus­ham­na held a sur­pri­se for us – the lagoon was alre­a­dy fro­zen solid, so we pre­fer­red to drop the anchor on the out­side, as we wan­ted to spend just a night and not the who­le win­ter the­re. Of cour­se we went out next mor­ning and explo­red the win­ter land­scape. Then we con­tin­ued with an excur­si­on into Bock­fjord. Next day, the scenic high­light in Lief­defjord was obvious­ly the migh­ty Mona­co­b­reen, which is curr­ent­ly very acti­ve, and the hard­ly less impres­si­ve Seli­ger­breen. On Andøya­ne, we said good­bye to Lief­defjord – we saw a polar bear in the distance, a short sight­ing, and then we con­tin­ued north- and west­wards.

Gal­lery 2: Nor­thwards, into Wood­fjord

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