03 June 2016

The dog is 6 months, 1 week old. Today I have checked that she loves to run and she has definitively  Husky blood. What a strength. We did few km. It is funny to run with the husky, better then alone. However, it takes the energy to drive a dog. With all the wild animals around you have to constantly steer the dog and indicate left or right. We met dozens of reindeers and hundreds of birds. Nice walk:)   

gazing each other for 1 minute:)

28th May 2016

Can you imagine? I did not have time to write about one of my biggest dreams that became true!! On Monday, 23, the vet come to check our dogs and make them the blood tests and I did not know how but me, Konrad, Robert, Mateo, Jacek and our spring phd, Daniel we ended in the helicopter. Ok.. for sure our boss, Jarek did again some magic ... and the pilots are fantastic people so this is why it had happened:)

 Although the sky was cloudy and the windows were dirty it was wonderful experience to fly above the Glacier and the Station.  My crappy camera did not made good pictures, but I have very nice memories. 

very happy faces :D

Hansbreen from little auk view

T-shaped Station and 2 orange amphibians 

Hornsund Fjord from above

Fugiel mountain

the dirty window:)

The crew member checking the landing place

24th May 2016 - next dog's adventure

Me & my dog at the Arctic sea :D

The dog is mine. No doubts. The friend of my life needs to get used to do the things with me and together we are working on this since Harpa was born:) We have already did 4 alone nights in 3 trapper's houses (called hus, I have to upload some pics of it) that are quite close to the Base. Yesterday was the time to go a bit further, to Pallfjordden. And moreover we had the purpose- we needed to clean there after some renovation work.

The weather was great, the sea was calm and even Harpa enjoyed her first boat trip. We went to the hus, but we couldn't open it. The first room was full of snow (up to the roof!) and we had to enter through one of the windows. It was complicated task since all windows are  prepared for polar bear attack:) But by mixing our polar experience and creative thinking we could enter to the house and then fight with the snow from inside. The hus has 3 rooms, and only first one was in snow. Rest of it very sunny and cosy.

We prepared all stuff, the water was hot, the fireplace was giving the wonderful warm sensation, the bottle of wine was prepared on the table and everything was too perfect.. When everything was prepared to spend nice evening/ night in the hus, we had to escape very quickly. The ice pack was coming very quickly and we had to left the place in really hurry.

For about 100 m we had to fight with the floes to can pass with the boat and ice tried to crash us.. It was a bit fighting for survive. Later there were hight waves. My puppy hated it... 

We arrived to the Station about 3 am. What a day... No photos from the way back- it was too stressful;)

With the bus driver :D

Me & my puppy :D

3rd room

2nd room

1st room

22nd May 2016

After quite long time ... about 11 months;) we were able to make some group photos. After long time the weather was good and there were still enough snow around to move with snowmobile. Robert made some very nice pictures. Apart of the formal pics we made some portraits. Here are the results: :)