Aurora´s rough position 6.6.2008 at 1:00 PM

The skiing season is over and everything worked perfectly. I´ll tell you more about that later. Siggi and Smari Karlsson (my brother) are on their way to Jan Mayen on a speciall project that will not be revealed here. Anyway, the progress was slow to begin with but now conditions are perfect; light seas and good breeze that gives on average 8 knots under sail. Their rough position can be seen here on the map with 300 miles to go to the island.

When they return around 12th June, we get ready to sail again from Iceland to Jan Mayen doing two skiing expeditions with Norwegian groups.

Gummi, with his Russian fur hat in his eBay boat

A puffin and a common guillemot watching us

Birds everywhere

Orvar, a proud owner of an egg!

Rappeling down to the boat again with few eggs in the bag

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The spring brings changes. Nature here in the North kicks in with a blast and all the birds are nesting. For centuries, locals have rappeled down the steep walls of the birdcliffs to get some very tasty guillemot and razorbill eggs that are hatched in the cliffs in millions. These amazing birds don´t seem to mind. I guess they know that every spring the man comes to get few eggs, so they just lay another one.

We went  this week to Adalvik Bay in the Hornstrandir Nature Reserve to get few eggs. The ride was a very small 3  person boat that our friend, Gummi bought on eBay...! Pretty fast and good boat. We climbed from the shore up to a 20m high rock and found eggs lying everywhere.

Here are some photos.

There have been various articles appearing in different newspapers and magazines since we started our operation. Here you can see some of it. More will be added as they appear.

The days are long when backcountry skiing in the Icelandic spring

Dead humpback whale on the beach in Hloduvik, Hornstrandir

Kayaking under Haelavik bird cliffs

Sailing in Isafjardardjup Bay

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We have put in the 2009 dates for all our trips and expeditions in Iceland, Greenland and Jan Mayen. We´ve made some minor changes to some of our trips and think we now have a great selection of activities not to be missed in our beautiful part of the world.

No matter if you´re looking for a relaxing cruise in the fjords and bays of Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, backcountry skiing in Glacier Fjords, sea kayaking in the midninght sun few miles south of the Arctic circle, sailing, walking and sea kayaking on the east coast of Greenland, wildlife trips to experience the wild wild nature of Hornstrandir... you name it!

As previously, themes of each departure can be changed to fit people´s preferences if there is a group booking. The prices are the same except the Greenland expeditions are now much more attractive due to changes in the setup of the trip. Yes, we´re still learning as we go along...

As we´re pretty much booked up until August this year (and have been for a while) I recommend you stay in touch sooner than later if you want a taste of real adventures in the higher latitudes in 2009.

Looking forward to see you next year