Cruise around the northern lands - part 2

Rest in Svalbard (continued, part 2) Day Four Today we will explore the area Lida fjord and a huge glacier in Monaco. A trip in an inflatable boat has stood out much more interesting because the wind rose. It is not like the quiet ride of the previous day! Glacier actually turned out to be huge. He was surrounded by large chunks of ice and boulders, which he brought and left at least thawing. Our route I'm interested in one feature. Since the ship seemed that the shore was very close, but if we just change seats on inflatable boats and go to the land, once it became clear that it is much farther than we originally thought. Apparently, the distance was more difficult to calculate because there was only around the ice, and there were trees that could help to estimate the size of buildings. Toward the evening we first saw the polar bear. He seemed far away on the slope of a mountain, a long time I tried to look at him through binoculars, but could not see. I thought I saw some small yellow dot. Although, maybe it was a rock. But I'm still hoping that we all come! Days of the fifth and sixth in the next two days we went even further north to the Strait of Hinlopen. We were all very worried when, standing on the bridge, they saw on the instruments that our boat went north of 80 degrees north latitude. So close to the North Pole I have not picked up, and, probably, and not pick up more. Is that the next time I'll be on board the icebreaker. Our ice is the way to Hinlopenu soon blocked accumulation of floating ice, which brought from the north. It is here that it was decided to drop the anchor and the next day drifting in the ice. While our mechanics' services engines, we have the opportunity to enjoy the peace. It was a little scary because of what was around the ice and nothing else. On Friday morning I was very glad to get out on deck and see the midnight sun that greeted me on my birthday. A little later came and another guest - at four o'clock in the ice hole next to the ship appeared walrus! First, some of the teams did not even believe what I saw walrus at four o'clock in the morning, thinking that I went over cocktails at the bar. Well, I did a lot of pictures! Glaucous gull Later that same morning, we began to move across the ice, together with another ship. However, we did pass through the ice for the two smaller vessels, which, without our assistance must be stuck. While our boat was not an icebreaker, it reinforced body has allowed us to break through the ice, and we all gathered at the bow and watched this amazing spectacle. At times the ice was very thick, so that the captain had to seriously try to get all of us. Behind the ship flew a flock of ubiquitous glaucous gulls, which caught all the fish appears on the surface. The Seventh Day It was a very busy day. After we spent two days drifting and forced his way through the ice, we waited just three trips per day. We woke early this morning as we were landing on the island of Ny-London or blomstrandite. Here is an abandoned marble mine. Walked a bit around it, we managed to find the best flowers at all Svalbard! Here on the island is a few old shacks that serve residents of the archipelago "Country" homes. Our second stop was on a glacier on July 14. We sat in inflatable boats and raced past the bird cliffs on which the nest guillemots, glaucous-green gulls and puffins, to the glacier. We are waiting for wonderful views of the coast, poryty ice, which slowly but surely crawled into the sea. We have for some time sat and listened to the roaring glacier. Glacier on July 14 evening, we were on the small island of Prince Charles, on Cape Poole. There we were going to watch a large group of walruses, vacationing on the beach. We were lucky, walruses were in place. We managed to go ashore and pick them up close. Funny how they bask in the sun, grunting, pushing each other with their claws, scratching, and simply doing nothing. I was in the second group. And I was lucky to observe a few walrus swam beside us, while others accompanied the first group to the boat. Then they watched us, but in the end also accompanied us to the boat. Same walrus swam to our boat, poglazeli on us, and then sailed away. Very curious creatures, these walruses! Start material: End of Material: See also: Journey to the North Pole aboard the Russian icebreaker modern version of the Norwegian Vikings travel Antarctica: a route for tourists of all ages