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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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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When we arrived in Skjervøy we realised for certain that it’s all about the fish and not the orca. This little Norwegian town with it’s spectacular backdrop of snow capped peaks is all about fishing. When we arrived in port we were struck with the scale of the fishing support infrastructure for such a tiny […]
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Out before sunrise we headed east then south from Skjervøy in search of orca and hopefully to observe their hunting prowess on the migrating herring. The orca hunt herring by corralling them into a tighter and tighter swimming mass until the herring school forms a dense ball that the orca force to the surface. At […]
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