It has been a cracking day on the weather and wildlife front, with an amazing mix of icy wind, driving snow and near zero visibility!! We are currently in a large patch of sea ice and have ground to a halt!!! This is what we've all been waiting for ;)) lol the ship is carving through at a snails pace, yet another amazing experience!!! I am sat in the cabin typing this with the the eery scraping of the ice, the thundering roar of the engines which send bone juddering waves through your spine and the thud as she slams into the ice ( which is in the region of 3-5 metres thick and solid). The creaks and squeaks within the ship are quite surreal baring in mind the size and stresses that it goes through.......one word that keeps springing to mind is WOW!!!
Pictures capture only soo much and certainly go no where near doing justice to this whole experience. Meeting the crew on deck and seeing their reactions in line with ours is also such a powerful reminder of how lucky we are to be experiencing this adventure and also so humbling.....
Not sure what the ships tracking shows at your end but since we have been stuck the ships computer shows that we have done two loop the loops, we're currently heading back on ourselves to find a passage that is a bit clearer...
We are crossing our final timeline tonight, and I think we have about 300 ish miles to go...
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