Midway through our Hurtigruten 6-day sea voyage along the Norwegian coastline, we crossed the Polar Arctic Circle...not to be confused with the North Cape.
Latitude 66° 33′ 38″N
(somewhere between the towns of Ørnes and Nesna)
The only visual that marks the crossing is the above monument that we almost missed because they didn't announce it on the PA system. We knew it was coming around 9:15 a.m. and made sure we were on deck.
What they DID announce was the ceremony that took place immediately afterwards at 9:45 a.m.:
PLEASE COME ON DECK F for the Polarsirkelseremonien!
Once on deck, we were greeted by our sea-voyage Tour Leader, Egbert (top right above), who is so tall at 6'8" he easily oversees any crowd (and just happens to be Dutch, hahaha). He explained that we would celebrate the crossing with some Norwegian cod liver oil, served to us by none other than our ship's captain, Svend.
So, to work up to our own 'baptism,' Astrid and I both started taking pictures right and left.
We both took pictures of Peter and Yolanda, our German table mates who were good sports...
...followed by moi.
Did I mention I HATE cod liver oil! An injured memory from childhood.
But I also was a good sport, just to say I did it.
AND...
...we got to keep our spoons!
I did the Arctic...hunting the light.
Today is my turn at Vision & Verb on guess what:
the Gag Reflex!
[And in case you missed it, my last post 3 days ago was about our ship, MS Vesterålen.]
So, to work up to our own 'baptism,' Astrid and I both started taking pictures right and left.
We both took pictures of Peter and Yolanda, our German table mates who were good sports...
...followed by moi.
Did I mention I HATE cod liver oil! An injured memory from childhood.
But I also was a good sport, just to say I did it.
AND...
...we got to keep our spoons!
I did the Arctic...hunting the light.
Today is my turn at Vision & Verb on guess what:
the Gag Reflex!
[And in case you missed it, my last post 3 days ago was about our ship, MS Vesterålen.]
