Hilary's Places

Travel Images by Hilary Hopkins

July 17 -25 2004 / Svalbard: Land of the Ice Bears

In which we travel above the Arctic Circle, amid the ice
  • glaciers meet water in the Arctic Ocean
  • picking our way through the ice, Arctic Ocean
  • reindeer hair in moss, Svalbard
  • garden of Purple Saxifrage, Svalbard
  • walking across the freeze/thaw cycle polygons
  • boarding the zodiacs to return to our ship, Svalbard
  • a silvery nugget of ice on a pebbly Svalbard beach
  • dark sky and ice in the Arctic Ocean
  • an Ice Bear observes our ship
  • mother and her young Ice Bear are curious about our ship, Arctic Ocean
  • zodiacs in fog, Arctic Ocean
  • icy color, Arctic Ocean
  • sky, rock, cloud, water, ice - Arctic Ocean
  • walking the moss and rock, Svalbard
  • the Captain's Ice Bear mascot, looking for bears - Arctic Ocean