SUMMER where it is always WINTER | life on an island close to the North Pole

SUMMER where it is always WINTER | life on an island close to the North Pole

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oh this is the coldest i've ever swam in welcome back to svalbard everyone as you can see  summer is in full swing and it is swimming season   we finally have our boat in the water and  we're out on our first trip of the season   so before we continue the arctic swimming let  me show you where we are and how we got here   but first of all my name is cecilia and i live  on svalbard and island close to the north pole   and welcome back to a new video christopher and  i and grimm and fenris headed out in the most   incredible weather where it seriously felt like we  were gliding through the sky it was unreal we set   sail for turigamna which is a very good place  to anchor this early in the season since many   of the other fjords are still covered by ice and  the trip over to trigramna is about three hours wow oh this is the coldest i've ever swam in that was just a little granny dip   does that even count christopher  i don't know here comes the energy graham do you want to swim with me hashtag ocean i wasn't ready to do any proper swimming this  time it was just way too cold so i did a lot of   these granny dips it's difficult to explain how  ice water dipping feels but imagine it like this   when you first dip your body in it's like pins  and needles your whole body gets a shock your   breathing becomes shallow and you have to  work on slowing your breath and keeping calm   but when you get out of the water it only takes  a second or two for it to go from uncomfortable   to there being a huge rush of energy  going through your entire body   it feels like a mix of euphoria and warmth  and suddenly you don't feel cold anymore and   you're just happy this is why i swear by cold  water dips and it even has proven health benefits   i made a whole video on it so if you're  interested just go check that out after swimming in the cold arctic water  it feels very good to take a hot shower   and this video is sponsored by function of beauty  i've always been very passionate 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swim no it's not a proper swim it was  a granny dip but it was like five granny dips   that's i felt like that's the only thing i could  do today you don't have to ease into the season   and christopher it's our first boat  trip this year yes that's nice isn't it   oh super nice for you to see some star trek yeah  here comes with the rifle i'm gonna put that down   a shotgun sorry for the polar bears there  seem to be no polar bears in this area   which is quite nice because now we don't have  to worry there's a few other boats as well   but where we are now you can't really  see them i think there's two other boats   but so now we are making dinner it's quite  late oh my gosh it's 10 it's 15 past 10. we've   only had breakfast today because it takes like a  little bit to get here we left longevin at around   three or four and then what did  it take two hours to get here   oh i think it almost took three hours because  we're driving really slow yeah that's true   almost three hours so but now we're just gonna  stay here till tomorrow which is kind of the   perfect first trip because you know just to know  that everything is working correctly and it's   i don't know it's nice to do a quick one because  tomorrow there will be a lot of wind coming   so we're gonna have to leave in the morning yep so  we're gonna get up early and enjoy some breakfast   here and coffee and then we're gonna go home  again i'm starting to warm up now i'm wearing   the worst thing i would say about swimming or  dipping is your feet your feet die everything   else is completely fine but it's your extremities  that's what it's called your toes and your   fingers get very very cold wow it is absolutely  breathtaking here today but now we need some food   and i just realized maybe you are new here  watching this video and if you are subscribe   also i'll give you a boat tour because you might  not have seen this boat because we got it last   summer and yeah so let's do a quick boat tour this  is the living room you could say and the kitchen   and here we have grim you're a sweetheart  good bro he sleeps so much on board this boat kitchen the whole kitchen back here we  have down here everything is very messy now   you have a a double bed sleeper with  a low roof but that is perfect to   store stuff or if you have guests that  want to sleep down here i'll show you   look we need to give it some love and some tlc  but it's fine also quick reminder this boat is old   is it over 20 years christopher yeah so built in  98. so you will see that around the boat that it's   it is far from perfect but that is perfect for  up here it really is because this place is dirty   it is you know crazy we have the dogs we  wanted a first of all a boat we could afford   and then to get this is more than  i ever thought that we would get   it's so big but the motor is new right and  that is what you need said that we need   look at this i love this you'll see here that  there's age to these okay faster this is the   main area captain's chair and then this is the  our sleep area and also the bathroom so here on   either side we have what we call stick cabin  which i would now like to call baby births   this is baby birth number one whoa that has a  lot of stuff in it so this is actually a sleeping   place a cabin i think you would call it smybay  i've forgotten all my boat lingo i used to work on   boats but can't remember so that is one of those  and then here is the other one oh no yeah so like   i said i've been looking for these we have put  this is the first trip so we haven't done anything   this is what i'm gonna do another day but you can  sleep in there we're gonna use the storage here   is a perfect in between space for my chaos oh  i haven't even made the bed look at the mess   look at this but this is our sleeping  place our bed but like i said we have not fixed the boat for this year i haven't even  made the bed so that is kind of what i should   do now but we're gonna eat first and then i'm  gonna make the bed and then another day maybe   tomorrow i'm to go through all of the things that  we have sort everything out because for the winter   we store it on land so we just kind of chuck  everything away and now we have to deal with it   we even have a little tv in here but it's not  connected to anything but yeah so i have some   some things to do in front of my  and then from this view bathroom a toilet and a shower and a mirror do yes we are and fenris is wondering what is going  on okay i need to fix the seat a little bit i'm wearing too much clothing and if you move  your face a little bit ah it's going to be easier is behind me all ready to go is very new at this okay now here we go do not okay sana  i was wondering what's happening wow this is so beautiful you guys are not the best pee of your life like going in the water that's funny  that's why you need good wellies that went well peeing and peeing it's a lot of snow what is this be careful yeah cream you're very dangerous over there come here huh there we go that's more like it so and christopher is so funny he's  like i need some alone time i'm like   okay i'm gonna take the small boat and grim  and we're gonna go for a little ride like okay   so it's actually really nice because  sometimes you just need some alone time   but so i'm gonna start setting up the bedroom and  put the sheets on it's 11. i will tell you now  

that when you have midnight sun you completely  lose the sense of what is day and night even   more than during the polar night because  during the polar night you are ready to sleep   at all times getting up is difficult you are you  just want to snooze your body wants to snooze   and for some weird reason it's just kind of easier  to have that mindset to you know always know that   you're you can go to bed is super easy because  then when you do get up you work on energizing   yourself when it's the other way around it  is so difficult to make yourself go to sleep   does not make any sense it's difficult  to know that okay i need to go to bed now   like before i have i i have no idea at any  time what time it is there is a snoring   and i don't know why it is such a different  experience than the polar night but it really   is it also is longer in a way because during  the polar night you do only have the two and   a half months where it's actual complete  darkness whereas you know it's kind of   super bright all the time now for you know four  months doesn't make any sense but yeah so it's   um unsurprisingly difficult to go to sleep it's  11 i have no feeling of wanting to go to sleep   at all and i got up at like 8 30 this morning  but still i'm like i could stay up all night   but i won't do that also a lot of people are  asking if the shops and everything are open longer   no during the polar night it's the same as  during the midnight sun season life just kind   of goes on as normal you know what my biggest  fear about being on the boat in the summer is   it's waking up and there being  a polar bear like on board   the worst thing is this can  happen oh my gosh a baby fox okay wait is it too far away oh my gosh i think it's the small one i think it  might be a baby not a baby baby but a small one they've such a big tail for their body that was a nice moment oh they are losing their fur now so they look  hilarious okay back to what is saying my biggest   fear is waking up to a polar bear on board this  can happen this is why we of course bring our   guns with us when we are out you need that  at all times because the the polar bears can   easily climb on board your boat and then i'm also  having a new fear which is that they could like   since they waste so much i'm wondering if  they have the possibility to actually like   capsize the boat i'm gonna need to google this  or do i yeah what we usually do if we would ever   be in an area where we know that there is a polar  bear or that we see one we would have one person   up at all like all hours so we would do the shift  of bear watch because they can absolutely find   this so interesting and that it smells like  food and they want to come and check it out   and that wouldn't be very nice that is  definitely a fear they break everything   they have gone on boats and ripped things  out and just like picked apart the boat so yeah but very often when we're sleeping  somewhere christopher he would be up here   going to bed later or he would just be up  here sleeping because he really likes the sofa   now we're going to go and set up the bed so we can go to sleep it's cold in here i bought these fitted sheets when i was  in ikea with christopher in portugal   for this very purpose of being in the boat  oh i'm so cold and i think it will be perfect so at this it's so wrinkly and everything but  you know um we don't have a duvet for this   bed so we're gonna have to put blankets there  i do not know where the duvet went so we're   gonna figure that out but i think it looks  so nice and new and just fresh thank you ikea this is actually a super big bed it sounds like oh it's this  one's open it's so cold in here it's night time i'm wearing my boat pajamas it's the darkness and then we have this one it's actually quite good that's quite dark isn't it oh this is so cozy oh my gosh new sheets look at how cozy oh it's 1 a.m so this whole sleeping  thing is working out perfectly   but if i go to bed now when i get up in  eight hours no that's no i have to get   up at eight that's never gonna happen but okay  in the perfect world i would get up at eight   it's never gonna happen i'm just feeling  very happy right now okay i need to go to   bed i shall talk to you guys tomorrow in  the meantime let's have a look at the view good night smooches foreign hey what do you want to put it in oh it's raining wait venta hello you guys are dirty okay  you're not dirty or just wet attack how are you christopher yeah beautiful but it's raining which  is also cozy but i wanted to drone i'm gonna go put some coffee on hello good morning to you good morning  to you oh sweethearts sweethearts is this something christopher for breakfast hey he's so happy it's time to make coffee ah that is very very big yeah so we're gonna leave now so what i have to do now is help him get  the anchor up because the chain gets twisted so he's gonna tell me at the same time we also want to make sure  that we are not drifting off our cores here so we're just not floating away into the abyss look at this view you see we are racing against the wind so we are going  right now just like we said yesterday we're just   getting up and going straight away so that's what  we're doing now and probably the weather should   be fine while we go home so we don't have to you  know have a chaos trip hope good work team hello you

2022-06-17 05:08

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