Day 184: Coast Guard, the Norwegian Version

I'm leaving in about four hours on a Norwegian Coast Guard ship to head for the high north (read back a few posts for the map of Ripfjorden). I'll be getting up to around 80 degrees north. Apologies but this means I'll be out of commission for the next five days. In compensation, I promise to bring home some choice bacon. And by bacon I mean photographs of areas of Svalbard that are not seen by many.

Meanwhile, read this.

And this, while you're at it.