[Leica] Arctic trip

[Henning Wulff]

Thanks, guys. Yes, definitely bleak. No bushes, no trees. Actually, that's not quite true. There was the arctic willow (picture to come), but it is a ground creeper, only about a cm high.

Henning Wulff
hjwulff at gmail.com




On 2016-09-19, at 3:31 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice set, but feels rather bleak on the whole.
> 
> My favourite is the Kittiwake formation...
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Henning Wulff <hjwulff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well, we are back from our arctic trip (thanks in part to my cousin Philip
>> the travel agent) and have had a bit of time to look at some of the photos.
>> 
>> We went from August 20 to August 28 inclusive, from Resolute on Cornwallis
>> Island (approx. 75°N) to Cambridge Bay (approx. 69°N). Temperatures were
>> about 2°C ±2° the whole time, but often with a fierce wind. Dressing warmly
>> was adviseable.
>> 
>> The trip was with OneOcean Expeditions, which charters Russian research
>> vessels; in our case the Akademik Ioffe. A Finnish built, Russian owned and
>> manned vessel chartered to a Canadian company operating out of Squamish,
>> BC. They do various trips into the Arctic and Antarctic with mainly two
>> identical ships. After our trip, I have only praise for the whole
>> operation. The Russian crew was professional in all the best possible ways,
>> the OneOcean staff were extremely knowledgeable and helpful (staff were
>> mostly Canadian with some other nationalities represented) and the ship was
>> perfectly suitable for this trip. Strengthened for ice, extremely quiet and
>> vibration free diesel engines and electric thrusters for 'sneaking up on
>> polar bears', if a 6000ton ship can sneak up on anything.
>> 
>> The sister ship to this one was the base of operations two years ago when
>> the first of Sir John Franklin's ships, the Erebus was found after 165
>> years in Queen Maud Sound in 11m of water. A week after we came home the
>> second ship, the Terror, was found a bit further North by essentially the
>> same group, but not using the same ship since it was still carrying
>> tourists.
>> 
>> So. Here are the first pictures. All pictures in this album are from the
>> trip; more to come.
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/trips/Arctic/?g2_page=1
>> 
>> Henning Wulff
>> hjwulff at gmail.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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