Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Chasing the light

The phrase "chasing the light" (or "hunting the light") describes those of us in pursuit of the northern lights. It feels a lot like a chase, but also a little like a safari or bird watching expedition. We take watch out the windows and keep an eye on the sky. We program our phones so that the captain can alert us at any hour should the aurora appear after we go to sleep. When we start to get an inkling of activity we rush to don all our cold weather gear, grab our cameras, and race to the "sun deck" for open air views. When that fails we watch a movie or photo slide show about the aurora borealis. When we returned to our cabins one night we found souvenir "hunting the light" beanies which begs the catchphrase "I went to see the northern lights and all I got was this lousy hat..."



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