[Leica] Arctic trip

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

By the way, I went in June/July if that makes a difference....
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ted,
> I have been to the Arctic Circle, but to Svalbard/Spitsbergen, in Norway,
> where the landscape is far less bleak, maybe because there is plenty of ice
> to be seen, and in the areas without ice, plenty of lichen carpeting the
> ground, colouring it green. We reached 82N, which is close enough to where
> Henning reached. Temperatures did not reach 50 degrees below zero, but did
> reach 20-25 degrees below zero, which is bad enough. I have been to the
> Antarctic as well, but because you seldom go past 67S (because it is a land
> mass there, in the North it is all water), it is much warmer there, the
> worst I faced was 5 degrees below zero.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 9:59 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> Jayanand offered:
>> " Nice set, but feels rather bleak on the whole.<<<
>> Jayanand mon ami.:-)
>> You should be standing there when the temperature is 50 degrees below
>> zero and a vicious ARCTIC wind blowing with snow /ice particles blowing
>> around cutting into your face even though a tiny opening!! Regardless of so
>> called parka's and other arctic clothing you can still feel your spine
>> becoming frozen just standing there!
>> Oh yes and "WONDERING IF YOUR "leica" WILL GO CLICK WHEN YOU SLIGHTLY
>> UNZIP THE PARKA?" pull it out from what body warmth you have left. The
>> camera is out, fast focus "CLICK!" And back inside parka for next "freezing
>> happy snap!" :-) DANG IT'S SO COLD YOU HAVE TO BE THERE!
>> Wondering to yourself? "OH MY, WILL I EVER BE WARM AGAIN?"  :-( :-(  :-(
>> That condition isn't as you see Henning's scenic's!
>> cheers,
>> Dr. ted.
>> "you just have to be there" I don't think one can imagine the fierceness
>> of the cold!"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jayanand Govindaraj
>> Sent: September-19-16 3:32 AM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Arctic trip
>>
>> 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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