Well, that’s another adventure over. We left our ship in Longyearbyen on Tuesday morning and after many connections which had us landing at Tromso, Oslo, Copenhagen and Bangkok we finally arrived in Sydney on Thursday morning. We spent the night with our daughter and son-in-law and then back to Queensland on Friday arriving home at 5.30 pm.
Our memories we will always have ,but just a few things
The feeling of coming “home” to the ship after each zodiac excursion
The wonderful zodiac excursions with great guides, Quark really know how to pick their expedition staff
The reality of only going ashore with our guides and each of them with a gun enforces just what dangerous territory we were moving in but their training meant that any danger was reduced to a minimum. It was brought to us on the last day when a group of our walkers came across a bear at eighty metres. But there was a zodiac nearby to extract them. In all the years Quark have never had to kill a bear, and this is a very serious situation as all bears are protected and if that should ever happen, your holiday is over , whether it be the first or last day, and its a return to port, with very serious consequences.
The colours of the icebergs
And that first coming on to the pack ice and seeing the mother bear with her two cubs and the seal
Wow, what a trip and was it worth it, definitely yes. Like we said before we left home, we didn’t think the scenery would surpass the Antarctic, and we still agree that nothing can beat what’s down there in the south but nothing could take away the thrill of those bears. We were so lucky to see so many and so close.
Really one should not try to compare the two, they are both beautiful but they are both so different. As the saying goes, they really are "poles apart”
I.m sure our bear is saying “See you again next time”
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