Category: North West Passage

29-Aug-24 Murray Island Been following a chap’s blog who is rowing the North West Passage on the Cambridge Bay to Prudhoe Bay sector. Our paths will cross this morning. Between 0500-0600hrs. As you all know by now. Don’t do mornings so won’t be up to wave. In any event, they are rowing in the lee… Read more

28-Aug-24 Ulukhaktuk Morning lectures, as usual, are excellent. Photographs of the Inuit taken in the 1930s and 1950s. But. There’s a trigger warning. Will be shown dead foxes. Yikes. And other things being killed. FFS. We are all grown mature adults. Not a bunch of woke millennials crying at the slightest thing. No. We’re made… Read more

27-Aug-24 Smoking Hills, New Territories Bit rough last night. Sea depth exceeded 200m and sailing at just under 16kts. As we cross the deep Beaufort Sea off the continental shelf. Can only assume we are sailing international waters rather than Canadian. Disturbed night tossing in the swell. And another clock change during the night moving… Read more

26-Aug-24 Beaufort Sea Clocks went forward last night. Now on Yukon time. BST +8hrs. As you all know by now. Touring Taurean doesn’t do early mornings. It’s an early morning. By Taurean standards. By early I mean 0730hrs. 0630hrs body clock time. Curtains open to reveal bright blue sky. And land! Herschel Island before me.… Read more

25-Aug-24 Beaufort Sea They say Sunday is a day of rest. Not on this ship it isn’t. Considering the past four days are meant to be at sea at leisure I have no idea where the time has gone. Can assure you I have not been bored one moment. As usual, I’m very time poor.… Read more

24-Aug-24 Beaufort Sea Ullaakut (oo-lah-koot) – Good Morning (in the Inuit language) Bit rough in the night with the swell. Body rolling about a bit to the extent I think I might be rolling out of bed. The crew told us of a website you can follow our route on here: https://hrx.panomax.com/ra A lot calmer… Read more

23-Aug-24 Chuckchi Sea Not being a twitcher or birdwatcher or having any interest in birds whatsoever you’ll be surprised to learn that this morning’s lecture on Arctic Bird Life is so interesting. Glad I turned up. The scientists on board have maps coloured with migration patterns of different species. Migration route depends on where the… Read more

22-Aug-24 Bering Strait A bomb could have gone off last night and I would have slept through it. Jeez that was a long 20hrs yesterday. Cinnarizine helps obviously. But eventually wake at about 0700hrs. Can tell we’re stationary. Open curtains to reveal Nome still there. The 0600hrs departure has obviously not happened even though I,… Read more

21-Aug-24 – Nome, Alaska What. A. Day. There’s only one 3.30 in my day. And this isn’t it when my alarm goes off in the middle of the sodding night. Old friend (as in longevity), we’ll call her Miss Nottingham, texts to say, ‘wakey, wakey’. It being 1130hrs in the UK. Still the middle of… Read more

19 & 20-Aug-24 Vancouver Time for a little excursion into the mountains. Car hired. Subaru Ascent SUV is less car more tank. Could invade Russia in this. Not really Putin. Just joking. Hour’s drive to the Sea to Sky Cable Car. For amazing views for lunch overlooking snow capped mountains and a lake made turquoise… Read more