Happy holidays & merry Christmas! We're walking on ice (Patreon)

Hi all! Just want to wish you all happy holidays! For us it's really a special time of the year, today we were able to walk on the ice for the first time! There is a solid and stable piece of ice behind the stern of our boat but there's a "moat" of almost open water between the old ice and us, and also the tidal area close to the shore is still sketchy, so we actually could not make it further back into the bay or ashore. But we had fun playing around on the ice and Nova got to run around for a bit!

The weather now is quite cold, around -18 Celsius (0 F), and the ice is forming rapidly. In the next few days we should be able to get ashore as well.

The big Christmas celebration day for Finns is the Christmas Eve (24th). So today we made a bunch of traditional and non-traditional food; we had some herring, carrot casserole, creamy mushroom sauce, roasted veggies, Alaskan salmon etc. and now in the evening we'll have a bunch of Finnish candy and glögg as well.

We also were planning to have some cod that we caught couple weeks earlier - it was drying in the cold wind outside (Greenlandic style), hanging from the rigging. But yesterday a crow appeared from nowhere and took it.. well at least someone is having a nice Christmas fish!

Stay warm everyone and thank you for all the support during the whole year!