Nordstjernen: Lilliehöök-glacier and a Golden anniversary

... but first, some wildlife.

Day two, evening: Going out Magdalenefjorden we passed a lot of indolent walruses - what a lovely, lazy life!



The cruise-plan was to head up to Moffen at 80th latitude, but because of sea ice we didn´t get further than just north of Magdalenefjorden. The ship stopped by the iceridge, which looked like this:


The red circle points out this furry creature:


My first polarbear! It was eating a dead seal (I presume) while glancing our way, full of suspicion. We had quite a long look at it, to the enjoyment of all (maybe not the bear).

Further out on the ice we saw two other bears, but they were only visible through the binoculars, so therefore no pictures.



The skies cleared up soon after - here´s a photo of my brothers and my sister and Tor Ove on the deck, at 00.30 in the morning.



Day three: in the morning we approached the Lilliehöök-glacier in Krossfjorden in glorious sunlight and calm sea.


Tenderboats took us nearer the 8 km wide glacier-front.




Going in the smaller boats also brought us nearer all the beautiful, floating ice in the fjord.





And we passed another laidback walrus. Apparently oblivious of the rudely staring humans.


This beautiful day was also my parent´s 50th wedding anniversary - look at the cake the crew surprised us with!


It tasted great too:)

Before we left the Lilliehöök-glacier we managed to collect ourselves for a photo.



In the back, from left: Anders, William, Anne, Erik, Tor Ove, Birgit, Unni, Sidsel, Gunnar, Halvard, Martin, Emma, Peter and Thomas.


Loading all these photos take ages, so the rest will have to wait a little. But next time there´ll be a bar on the beach, and some nudity...