The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

We saw other animals from the boat too, but with both the animals and the boat moving the pictures are a bit abstract. See these are puffins.

And this is an arctic fox.

You can totally tell it’s a fox, right?

We saw a whale in the fjord.

It was between the mountains.

And the glacier.

It was a humpback.

We saw a lot of its back.

And its tail.

It waved its tail at us many times.

It was very drippy.

That’s because it started under the water.

Then flipped up.

Then showed us the back side.

Then disappeared back under the water.

One time it also showed us its head.

And it waved.

And the part between the head and the back, which I guess makes it the neck?

But whales don’t really have necks.

It didn’t breach for us though.

But it did blow.

Goodbye whale.

We walked around Stockholm a bit.

We don’t actually know what any of these buildings are.

It was very windy.

This statue was trying to tell us who pooped on his head.

There was a lot of water.

It is a pretty big city.

Then we ate some meatballs.

This is Longyearbyen, the largest settlement in Svalbard.

Technically we stayed in Nybyen, the suburb of Longyearbyen, because we are cheapskates.

But it is close enough to town that you can walk around without a “polar bear kit” including a rifle. You don’t need that until you go past these signs.

Longyearbyen is on a huge fjord at the end of a long valley.

It was settled for whaling and coal.

So there are a lot of coal mines.

And tramways for transporting coal from them to the port.

Now it has a lot of tourism and husky farms.

The huskies get very excited when people come to their farms.

A plane crashed near Longyearbyen once.

It was never cleaned up.

Longyearbyen has a little church.

They also have a big famous icebreaker boat.