We are currently back in Longyearbjen having unexpectedly lost Peter from the crew to a pressing personal situation; he's taken a plane back to the UK and we hope that his travels are safe and short.

Below are a selection of pictures from our far north adventures - the days have passed quickly and eventfully - we are all wondering what it will be like to experience our first nightfall - particularly James and Fiona who have really had only dusk since around the 1st of July. Today will be spent doing the chores and paperwork with a passage plan for heading south to Tromso hopefully tomorrow if the weather window is there for us to move off safely. The blog will hence shrink again to daily txt updates until we can sign back into a broadband internet carrier in Norway.

Pulling up the kedge in Trygghamna after the windlass malfunctioned

Crew on the beach at Eidembukta after Hannah fires her first shot from a rifle

Running from the Terns at Ny Alesund

By the old train at Ny Alesund

Site of old airship shed at Vigohamna. Vigohamna is a spooky place.

Crew at 80 degrees north, looking S towards Spitsbergen

Wearing Survival suits on ice watch in poor visibility

Magdalenefjord: the most photographed fjord in Svalbard

Grounded iceberg

Iceberg and friends

Talking to the Magdalenefjord sysselmen

waiting for the glacier to calve

Walrus – through a telescope

Swimming: brrrr. There’s ice in the water

Spray hood post repair

On the Fox hunt walking across the braided rivers