Svalbard Classic 14 - 24 August 2020

Day 1 – 14.8.2020 We started our fifth Svalbard photo expedition of the season with another international group of 8 photographers from UK, Norway, Switzerland and Poland. In the afternoon we set our course north along the coast.

Day 2 & 3 – 15 & 16 August 2020 We decided to go directly for the drifting sea ice in the North, and reached the edge late in the evening. The next day we searched for wildlife the whole day, but with fog and low visibility it was impossible to see or photograph anything.

Day 4 – 17 August 2020  We decided to change course more southeast, where the sea ice was about to disappear. When arriving at the broken sea ice we stopped for a while and a young polar bear swam to our ship and posed beautifully on the ice flow. Another bigger polar bear also arrived and it was amazing to observe and photograph these polar bears in great light condition. We also had more than 20 pomarine skuas in the area, which gave us some nice flight photography options.

Day 7 – 20 August 2020 We arrived Liefdefjorden in the afternoon and spent the rest of the day and evening photographing ivory gulls, arctic terns and seals in great evening light. The glacier in this area is amazing and we had another magic evening enjoying our photography.

Day 10 – 23 August 2020 We spent the last full day on this photo expedition in the Isfjorden area. After intense days of photography it was a more relaxed and very sunny day. In the evening we steamed towards Longyearbyen for the night.