voyage

Snow geese

Snow goose (Chen caerulescens, Oie blanche du Canada) Navy Board Inlet, Nunavut, Canada. August 2016.

The entrance into Gibbs Fjord was a great nice surprise. The fog, instead of creeping down the bottom of the…

Finally, a nice picture of Mom and her little one, cruising together in calm waters: Short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus,…

Sunshine Fjord, Nunavut, Canada. August 2016.

Sunset encounters: Beaked whales according to the specialists, pilot whales do not really fear even large ships. They travel in…

I love vertical panoramas. They force the eye to explore the image in a different way… Northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis,…

Birds totally at ease under water, these thick-billed murres are great swimmers but take a long time taking off. Thick-billed…

Since penguins live only in the Southern Hemisphere and can’t fly, we could not encounter any during our 2016 trip…

Northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis, Fulmar boréal). Lower Savage Islands, Nunavut, Canada. August 2016.

Lower Savage Island, Nunavut, Canada August 2016.

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus, Ours polaire). Monumental Island, Nunavut, Canada. August 2016.

This walrus was ready to leave the beach to return to the safe depth of the sea. Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus,…

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus, Ours polaire). Monumental Island, Nunavut, Canada. August 2016.

Monumental Island, Nunavut, Canada. August 2016.

Lower Savage Island, Nunavut, Canada August 2016.

Polar bears are not afraid of water. This is my evidence: Lower Savage Island, Nunavut, Canada August 2016.

Northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis, Fulmar boréal). Lower Savage Islands, Nunavut, Canada. August 2016.

The Narwhal is a (small) toothed whale rather extraordinary because it holds a kind of long protruding spiral tusk (actually…

2016: A cold year where we went to the Arctic North of Canada (in the state of Nunavut, also known…