Floating here seams so surreal. A contradiction of serene calm and the frantic busyness of a fishing vessel eager to depart with the spoils of their morning’s work. Just moments before the sea was alive with gulls in the air, with orca stealing from the nets and with humpback whales cruising, waiting for a catch […]
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The Auroras have been a mystery to me my entire life, something almost never seen from southern Australia and certainly not by me. I had seen photographs, watched documentaries, even studied a little on how they are formed. Still they had remained to me in the world of myth. My visit to Norway changed everything. […]
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Ølhallen in Tromsø may be the oldest pub in the Arctic but at ninety years it is certainly Tromsø’s oldest. I am sure they did not start out with 72 beers on tap but 90 years later that long bar with all those beers is an impressive sight. Just watching the barman pour our tasting […]
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The classic orca images we see in posters of large dorsal finned animals cruising in pods through misty fjords are almost a clichéd view of the majesty of the orca. They are however just a surface glimpse, the tip of the orca, of their amazing lives below the surface. Here in Skjervøy in November there […]
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There are no words describe the world which has greeted us every morning here in the fjords of Skjervøy, Norway. It presses all of my buttons on what makes our world beautiful. Snow capped mountains, forests, an extraordinary sunrise, dramatic clouds and the ocean all in one amazing and integrated earthscape. This really is a […]
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