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“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
– Anthony Bourdain
The memories of what I took from my travels. Here.
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Will the Eagle land ?
“ We were so far north in Japan that we could actually see Russia .” That was my favorite oh so casually dropped line after our Japan...
May 16


Getting to know the King of the North
Wildlife photography trips are full of long hours with nothing to do. Our ship was steaming away to the next place. We were in one of...
Oct 18, 2024


High Drama at the Waterfront
There are times when you watch a scene unfold in front of you, right from the start to the very end. Like when you know that the cheetah...
Oct 4, 2024


A windfall of bears !
“ Bear in the water…behind us !!! “ That line set up an unprecedented, scarcely believable few hours for us. But, before I get into...
Jul 26, 2024


Random Thoughts from a Ship's Deck
Phototrips can be bloody tiring. I reached home a little after noon. A journey that was a tale of delayed flights, missed connecting...
Jun 13, 2024


Hello, Arctic…here I come !
As you read this, I would have either just reached the northern most inhabited place on this earth – Longyearbyen – or set off aboard the...
May 31, 2024


Views from the deck - II
A bird, a curious mix of dark grey ( or is it more brown ? ) and white – brownish wings and a white head and belly - came close to our...
Oct 7, 2022


Views from the deck - I
I dug my hands deeper into my pockets searching for some warmth that could be lurking inside, hunched my shoulders a little, stamped my...
Sep 23, 2022


The Magnificence that is the Arctic Tern
It’s a rather unremarkable bird to look at. Visually, there are birds that are far more striking than the Arctic tern, with its white and...
Sep 9, 2022


It's real. It's serious. And it's here.
“ Its unlikely that, that bear will survive. It looks tiny in size. There is no ice around the island so its stuck there. The only prey...
Aug 26, 2022


The Bear who liked to swim
She popped up again, her fur dripping wet, gave a weak shake of her head, spraying a much lighter shower of water around her and then...
Aug 12, 2022


In the Northernmost inhabited place in the world
First off, sincere apologies about missing the last scheduled newsletter. I was far away, in a desolate place, totally disconnected from...
Aug 6, 2022
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