Today is embarkation day but only much later. I enjoy our free time by going in to town and checking out the shops. Huge supermarket and an unreal amount of outdoor gear shops. On our way into town, Belinda tells me of some of our ship passengers are missing their bags and were told they wouldn’t be seeing them before the cruise!! Luckily one of the gents had a tracker in his bag and he noticed that the location was updated to being in Longyearbyen Airport in the afternoon!! Luckily everyone got their bags just before the cruise!!
At 2pm we met up and went to the Svalbard Museum for some background on geology, nature and history.
The ship transfer was by Zodiac as there is only space for one ship in port. I was number 1 on board the vessel in terms of passengers . Yay!!!
We had a safety briefing and did an emergency drill then dinner, a la carte.
