The weather forecast is for 3-4 metre waves and strong winds during our crossing of the Denmark Strait to Iceland on Le Boreal this evening. The crew spend a lot of time battening down potentially […]
Today’s itinerary is Danmark Island & Fohnfjord. We are landing this morning at Danmark Island in Scoresby Sound. Some interesting wildflowers, a pair of snow buntings that I couldn’t get close enough too and squadrons […]
It seems to be either famine or feast in the Arctic in terms of wildlife. We haven’t seen much at all, but this morning during breakfast there is an announcement from the bridge that they […]
Today is our first landing in Greenland, and we are in the picturesque Keyser Franz-Joseph fjord, surrounded by glacier-moulded mountains and what turn out to be fast moving huge icebergs, the largest of which is […]
We now have two days sailing across the Greenland Sea on Le Boreal, to reach the east coast of Greenland. Conditions during the voyage have been amazingly calm, and the Greenland Sea is no exception. The […]
