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Uncharted water

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Uncharted pop-culture We moved the other night, from the beach with the sand and glacier cubes to the north into another fjord. Anchoring on one side of Lloyd’s Hotel (Möllerfjorden), we did […]

The Fourteenth of July Bay

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7 October Sunday Möllerfjorden – Lloyd Hotel Yesterday – Fjortende Julibreen Yesterday, we continued motoring north along the strait between mainland Spitsbergen and the barrier island to the west; the water was […]

Out of sync

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Fluid time It appears that I am out of sync. Dates in my journal and dates on the photos and the memory of each day’s locations do not agree. I realized too […]

Musings in the ice

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3 October Hamnodden I’m already having trouble finding space. It’s just after 0600; the kitchen is waking up. I thought I would have time before everyone else got up. Ok. So, finding […]