With SV Meander around Spitsbergen, 26 August - 08 September 2024
Part 4: Bellsund and Isfjord
Gnålodden in Hornsund.
It was time to get around the south cape and to the west coast because the next storm was already coming up, threatening to make this area very unpleasant, to put it mildly. We made a brief visit in Hornsund with an evening landing at Gnålodden and then continued directly northwards to Bellsund.
Ice in the lagoon of Recherchebreen, Recherchefjord.
With a loop into Van Mijenfjord we went further north to Isfjord, which was a good thing considering the weather forecast which look pretty unpleasant at the west coast the next couple of days. We managed to escape strong winds and high seas, but there was no escaping from the rain. So much rain is nothing you see too often in Spitsbergen, but a morning in the cosy salong of Meander with some good presentations is not a bad thing at all.
Spitsbergen Reindeer in autumn mood at Alkhornet.
And the tundra at Alkhornet was not a bad thing either. It was great to come to this green and lush environment after all the polar desert and glacier landscapes in the east. We enjoyed the tundra and all its wildlife – plenty of Spitsbergen reindeer and several arctic foxes – in great autumn light.
Curious arctic fox, Alkhornet.
The tundra in Borebukta and at Bohemanneset, the latter with some geological bonus material, rounded our circumnavigation of Spitsbergen off.
Photo gallery – Spitsbergen with SV Meander, part 4: Hornsund, Bellsund and Isfjord
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