• Zodiac cruise in Paradise Harbor — Antarctic Peninsula, 2007.
    Zodiac cruise in Bernstorff Isfjord — Greenland, 2013.Breaking through polar ice — En Route to the North Pole, 2014.

    Reminiscing: The Ice

    February 12, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 36 °F

    Honestly, there is such a thing as an ice virus! And once you catch it, there is no treatment. You have to live with it 🤪

    In our case, we were “infected” when we did our very first glacier cruise out of Whittier, Alaska. That was in 2001. Since then, we’ve been back to Alaska several times. And to the polar regions as well. But in this footprint, I am only reminiscing about our Quark expeditions … to the Antarctic, Greenland, and North Pole.

    Saying that I have thousands of “ice” images would not be an understatement. So, picking just three images to share here was more or less like throwing a dart blindfolded and using whatever photo that was thus selected. As it turns out, they were detail shots rather than expansive ice views.

    I never tire of ice images … and hope to add a couple thousand more to my collection in August.
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