The Adventure Plan Bodø-Oslo-London-Miami-Guayaquil-Galapagos islands-Miami-Buesnos Aires- San Carlos de Bariloche and back again

Every adventure needs a beginning, and ours is all about flying. Living in Northern Norway means that  it’s a long way to get anywhere, but we managed to take some much needed breaks along the way!

Adventure awaits, but leaving Northern Norway with the beautiful sights of Svartisan glacier in the midnight sun was hard

As you might know the weather in Europe has been sweltering around 30 degrees celsius (the mean average temperature where I live is 5.4 degrees). Luckily for us, however, it was international ice cream day, many belated wishes to you if you missed it.  Our city break in Oslo was filled with ice cream, meeting random sculptures and exploring the new realm of pokemon go.

Next stop… London. We had a brief encounter with London and the inside of an airport before heading on to Miami, a place we’d never visited before.

The air in Miami was so humid as soon as we stepped out of the airport we felt the moisture forming on our skin. The streets in their perfect straight lines are bordered with palm trees and it feels like a movie set with a perfectly manicured white sand beach and rows of white hotels reaching into the sky.

I got up early this morning for a run, knowing that it was another long-haul flight ahead of me. As I headed down to the beach I saw lots of heads bobbing around in the water, but knowing the time it surely couldn’t be other beach goers. I got closer and the heads took to the sky, it was pelicans!

The brown pelican Pelecanus occidentalise is common to the West Atlantic coast, and is much smaller than most pelican species. In Florida it is a conservation priority recently removed from the endangered species list, with their biggest threat being entanglement in fishing lines. They feed on fish and invertebrates and can often be seen diving into the oceans, sometimes too close for my liking when I’m bathing. Pelicans can be seen all year round in Florida as they don’t migrate from this region. They are not to be missed, its incredible when such a large cumbersome bird glides through the air centimetres from  the surface of the ocean.

Well thats all for now I can hear the boarding call for my next flight… time to go…