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beautiful and forbidding. His description of these excursions by

ski-doo did not entice me to want to join him however. That’s just
too cold, too primitive and probably too dangerous as well: not

only polar bears menace the travelers of April; there are also
crevasses in the glaciers, calving ice faces, blinding and

disorienting fogs.

Sighting a pod of Fin Whales

Sure enough by supper time, the seas were calm again which
made us happy. We had intended all along to have dessert and

bread at this meal (we had not eaten either of those things until
the last day) so we were happy that we would not be bouncing

along. Dinner was delicious as usual and the chocolate chip ice
cream with chocolate syrup was well worth waiting for.