Fridays with Manny

  

Voyage on MS Roald Amundsen

Before the start of our voyage on the Norwegian Hurtigruten Expeditions ship, named after the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, started, I had no idea what to anticipate, or how I would feel. To prepare for the trip, I took eight travel books in the Public Library, a photo-book and a very informative book, “The Great Book of Alaska”. 

When we arrived in Anchorage, on the wall in the airport I saw a beautifully executed image made by the local photographer Bob Kaufman, who takes amazing images of Alaska, and in the tourist stores we saw photos by other local photographers. But taking these images was their experience, their feelings, not mine. One of the reasons we chose the Hurtigruten Expeditions cruise line was because their ship was specially designed to go into inner passages, allowing more opportunities to experience nature. We were fortunate with the weather. During the daylight which lasted for about twenty hours, the outside temperature hovered at 70°F.

When I woke up at 6:30 and went out on the balcony, I was overwhelmed with emotions seeing the beauty. In front of me there were peaks of the snow-covered mountains and pieces of ice slowly drifted in the opposite direction. The blue sky and dark blue water framed these images. Today, was a leisure day without any excursions. We could enjoy the beauty of the College Fjord, to read, to write, to eat and of course to photograph. I doubt if you can feel what I felt, but at least you can enjoy these three images.

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