Category: photography
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Weather has finally broken. Distinctly chillier, wind picking up and skies overcast for the first time since we arrived. Rain forecast for tomorrow but we have had a very good run so can’t complain about our change of fortune.Yesterday we were up early for a run out to Clingancourt, the very large Paris flea market…
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We went down to Cherry Beach at about 10:00 last night to watch the lunar eclipse as the moon rose over Lake Ontario. Hundreds of people there and most interesting of all were large numbers of Chinese young people, scattered about in small groups, each group lighting small candles in nylon balloons, and then as…
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Overnight and this morning the ship sailed further down the east coast of Greenland and entered Scoresby Sund, the largest fjord system in the world covering about 38,000 sq kilometers and whose arms at times extend about 350 kilometres inland from the coast.We will be visiting the Innuit village of Ittoqqortoormitt a hunting community perched…
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Arrived this morning in Kejser Franz-Josepph Fjord, East Greenland and we have sailed from 80 degrees North at the top of Spitsbergen to 73 degrees North at our present location. Because we are 7 degrees farther south we are once again seeing sunsets at about 11:30 pm and sunrise at about 3:30 am.The intercom went…
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Sailing through the Greenland Sea. Very relaxing day capped by a special Chef’s dinner. 6 course dinner and wines to match; after a day of relative inactivity, more than we wanted to face but we soldiered through it.
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We were expecting to cross the Greenland Sea today and arrive at our destination in Greenland tomorrow afternoon but when we looked at the chart of our progress on the tv in our cabin, we had sailed for a considerable distance during the night but had then doubled back on our track and taken a…
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For the first time since we left Longyearbyen, awoke to heavy fog and the ship moving very slowly as it threaded its way among ice floes. We had been scheduled to stay aboard this morning while the ship reached the southern edge of the Arctic pack ice, which is starting push down at the end…
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Le Boreal sailed all night and when we awoke this morning we were greeted by grey skies and a sullen sea. During breakfast the ship anchored and at 10 we dressed very warmly and loaded the zodiacs for an hour and a half trip to a long section of very high cliff faces rising out…
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Have been heading steadily north since we left yesterday’s glacier excursion, sailing up the west coast of Spitsbergen and heading for some fjords at the top of the island at about 79,50N. Should be above 80N latitude by tomorrow or only about 600 miles from the North Pole.After breakfast dressed warmly and loaded our zodiacs,…
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Breakfast in the buffet restaurant, lots of smoked salmon on offer so smoked salmon, plain yogurt and fresh fruit will be how I start my days on this trip; can’t imagine anything better. As long as there is smoked salmon on offer I will never starve and in fact I will be able to get…
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