Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >