After yesterday's fine weather, we awake to heavy fog. We do basic administrative stuff today - breakfast, safety briefings, briefings on how to get and out of zodiacs, get issued our rubber boots and life vests, etc. Our first landing is at Ny Alesund, a former mining town. Apparently conditions were so unsafe here that they eventually closed it down. Of interest, this is where a number of Airship trips to the North Pole were launched. They still have the mast where the airships were moored. Now, the site has been taken over by researchers and is the northernmost research facility in the world. We spend a couple of hours here, visiting the small museum, the airship mast, and a memorial to Roald Admundsen who lost his life in a rescue mission launched from here.

Later that afternoon, we head for Krissfjorden, a with a number of large glaciers for a ship cruise. We see Moller and Lilliehook glaciers, as well as, the Akademik Molchanov, another expedition cruise ship.