Traveling and Exploring the Arctic with Quark Expeditions in Spitsbergen, Svalbard
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2023
- This video highlights my experience in the Arctic and traveling around Spitsbergen, Svalbard with Quark Expeditions from June 15-23, 2023.
This video was put together by Scott Sinton (@scottysinton) with the collaboration of photos and videos from myself (@trekrover) and fellow passengers on board the Ocean Adventurer.
If you're interested in the itinerary, check out: Intro to Spitsbergen - Fjords, Glaciers and Wildlife of Svalbard @ www.quarkexpeditions.com/expe...
Special Thanks:
Quark Expedition Crew for making this a memorable experience!
Scott Sinton - scottysinton
Christel Hervet - misschievous2014
Alex Matheson - mathesonphotography
Justin Niu - trekrover
I was on a different ship and saw your cruise in Raud Fjord. Your sighting are amazing. It appears we saw many of the same bears. I am definitely interested in the history of your viewings.
I think we saw a total of 7 polar bear sightings during the entire trip! it was quite amazing! Unfortunately I don't have a pinpoint map of where we saw each polar bear sighting. we had 1 area where there was a mother bear feeding her cub on one day, another day we saw a polar bear crossing the tundra and swimming and fishing (that is the one we both probably saw) and another day we had 3 bear sightings a mother bear and 2 cubs feeding on a walrus carcass and a 3rd male polar bear nearby, the 4th sighting we had a lone skinny bear sleeping on the ice near the glacier shelf.
@@trekrover It is not so much the quantity as the quality. 🙂 You had some good sightings. Some of my sightings were quite far, but just seeing it was amazing.
Coming 8th May I will visit Svalbard and it's for 4 nights 5 days. I want to do glacier hiking, polar bear watching trips ,can you suggest where I can talk regarding these trips?
That is very exciting! Unfortunately I did not have a travel forum to discuss my trip when I was planning. I ended up going through Quark Expedition to book my itinerary and activities. There is a Reddit thread on Svalbard which might be a good start: www.reddit.com/r/Svalbard/?rdt=55748
Here is also the official Svalbard website on planning and what to do in Svalbard: en.visitsvalbard.com/
@@trekrover thank you so much for replying, yes I have searched on Svalbard website.