Remembering Tasiusaq Greenland
Today, I was a guest presenter at the Foothills Photography Group in Georgia where I talked about my September 2019 trip through the...
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Jan 7, 20222 min
Find My Ship
The cruise industry, while not back in full swing, is definitely back. It's easy to tell by going to Cruise Mapper where you can see the...
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Sep 18, 20191 min
Kangerlussuaq: The Final Stop
Kangerlussuaq is located at the end of a 190 kilometer fjord, one of the longest in the world. It used to be a military →
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Sep 17, 20192 min
Sisimiut: Muskox Burgers, a Polar Plunge, and the Aurora
Sisimiut is the second-largest city in Greenland, after Nuuk. Although it is seventy-five kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, →
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Sep 16, 20192 min
Ilulissat and Ilimanaq: The Unexpected Guests
The Greenland icecap meets the sea at the Ilulissat ice fjord via the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier. It is one of the most active and →
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Sep 15, 20191 min
A Disko Day
Today we took the Zodiacs through Disko Fjord to Qeqertarsuaq, also known as Disko Island. It is largest island along Greenland’s →
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Sep 14, 20191 min
Tasiusaq, Greenland: Lots of Vegetation!
Greenland is quite different from the pebbled and rocky land of the Canadian Arctic. It’s thick with vegetation and very squishy →
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Sep 13, 20191 min
A Day at Sea: Heading for Greenland
Today we head for Greenland. It's a day to kick back and relax. I signed up for a beading workshop given by Susie, one of our →
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Sep 12, 20193 min
Ausuittuq (Grise Fiord)—A Claim to the High Arctic
A day later than planned, we made it to Grise Fiord. The funeral that was supposed to happen yesterday did did not because the plane →
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Sep 11, 20191 min
74 Degrees North
We were supposed to visit the hamlet of Grise Fjord today, the most northern hamlet in North America. But due to a death i
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Sep 10, 20191 min
Dorest Glacier and More Bears
This morning we took a Zodiac tour of Dorset Glacier. The ice was amazing! The kayak program also started. Kayaking was →
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Sep 9, 20192 min
Beechey Island: Dying in a Desolated Land
Today was another very windy day. We sailed past Prince Leopold Island, a migratory bird sanctuary whose vertical cliffs are →
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Sep 8, 20192 min
A Polar Bear and Beluga Whales
When I woke up today, I looked forward to taking a watercolor workshop from Canadian landscape artist Andrew Sookrah. After →
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Sep 8, 20192 min
High Winds but High Spirits
We deviated from the historic Northwest Passge by sailing through Bellot Strait. This helped us avoid sea ice that we would have →
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Sep 7, 20192 min
Uqshuuqtuq or Gjøa Haven?
No matter which you choose, the name of this hamlet is difficult to pronounce. Uqshuuqtuq is the Inuit name and Gjøa Haven is →
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Sep 6, 20196 min
A Visit to the HMS Erebus
For centuries, men searched for a shipping route from Europe through the Arctic waters to Asia. It wasn’t until 1906 that
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Sep 5, 20192 min
Jenny Lind Island
No one knows why an Arctic island was named after the Swedish opera star Jenny Lind. She toured →
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Sep 4, 20193 min
A Sea Day: Learning Lots and Hearing Rumors
Today turned out to be a sea day—steaming through Coronation Gulf. Our onboard marine biologist, Pierre Richard, said that →
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Sep 3, 20193 min
Arriving Above the Arctic Circle
The cruise through the Northwest Passage started in Kugluktuk, a remote hamlet in Nunavut, Canada located above the Arctic Circle →
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