Swimming in the 2°C Arctic ocean! | SVALBARD ice bath | Longyearbyen, Northern Norway

Oh, the glacier just dropped a big, it just capped, is that what you say? My English this weekend is so confused. It's like I haven't spoken either Swedish or English or nothing for a while. You can hear it sounds like thunder when it drops into, well, when it cracks away from the glacier and then it drops into the ocean, it's like, and you can hear it all the way here. And I mean, we're pretty far away. The weather is so lovely at the moment. It is so calm, no wind almost. I'm drinking some coffee. At these weekends are like therapy. It's so nice to just get out of town, even though we have a baby town. But just, you know, not have any cell phone reception is really amazing, especially for me when I work a lot with my phone and social media and stuff. It is so nice to just disconnect for like three days and you can't do anything about it. And it's just perfect. I think it's the perfect way to actually be able to work with it without going crazy. Just leave for three days like every other weekend. It's nice. So it's still Saturday. It's about 4 p.m. Soon we're going to have dinner. I got the best comment on YouTube the other day. Somebody said, I don't mean to sound rude, but you seem to have the most boring but in a really nice way life. And I'm like, yes. I wouldn't say it's boring, but it is so peaceful. It's like we live in our little cabin outside the village and then we go on cabin trips on weekends. And it's just so quiet and it's calm and it's focused on being out in the nature and photography and just beautiful things. I really I'm so happy about the life I live and the place I'm living. I couldn't be more happy about it. And I probably will live here for a very long time. I have a feeling. Me and Christopher, we are doing a cabin extension this winter. So we're going to make our house proper. It's going to be twice the size. We're going to try to get some water in there so we can have a shower, a proper nice kitchen with like a kitchen island. It's going to be so nice. So we're just waiting for them to approve our permit and then we can start building in October. Well, not us, but we have somebody who's going to do it like a company. So that is freaking exciting. And I can't wait for that to start and we can get our home. Now I think I'm just going to enjoy my coffee. Wow, wow, wow. The weather is amazing. It's quarter past six and we're going to head over to the glacier because the wind has completely disappeared and it is just gorgeous outside. Look at this. He's under attack. So yeah, we're going to head over to the Tuna Glacier. And I am so freaking excited. Hopefully we see some whales. We might even see a polar bear. I just want to drone the glacier and get some beautiful pictures and just see, just see it again. But first we have to take the little dinghy from over there to that one. Just look at this water. I might actually swim later. There is a sauna here, like the little house beside it. And yeah, it would be really nice. But I don't know, I will probably get a bit of a cold if I do that. If you're wondering why I have this stick, it's because of these assholes. They attack because they have babies here. They think we're an issue. So if you have a stick, they attack the stick instead. We'll see how that works. Oh my god, there's the baby! Oh my god, protect him at all costs. It is okay. I'm gonna step away. Oh my god, so cute! Yeah, he's gonna be an asshole like your mom over there. But look at it! Oh my god, so cute. You just happen to be right here with your baby. Okay. We are droning. I don't know if you can see. Look at this. This is the Tuna Glacier. It is so beautiful. So I just flew my drone. And I also got off the boat and stood on a really big block of ice. Because I wanted to do that. And we found a huge one. And now we're gonna leave this beautiful glacier. Because I've taken my photos. I've stood on a huge ice block. And I am ready to go. We're gonna swim. The water is like two degrees. Not kidding. It's two degrees. Because we're in the Arctic. So yeah, I'm gonna set this up now. And I'm gonna go for a nice little dip. I'll see how much, how far in the water I go. Because it's cold. Okay, okay. No, it's not even bad. The worst thing is definitely the feet. They get so cold. Like the rest is kind of fine. But you don't have a kill to have shoes. Now I think we are done with the swimming for the day. Let's go and sit in front of the fire. And enjoy ourselves, you know. I'm back inside after my amazing swim. God, I went in three times. I fully dunked my body in the first time. And then after that, I just kind of stayed with the boob area down. But I still went in and enjoy the cold water. It's crazy how hard it is the first time. And then it gets easier because you kind of lose feeling in your legs. Yeah. But now I'm back inside. I just need to, you know, dry off, regain some warmth. My legs are so red. So I just made a fire. And I'm going to sit in front of that for a couple of minutes. And just, you know, get some heat back. It is two degrees in the water. Only two degrees. And then outside, I think it's like 10 degrees in the air. So I don't think it's cold at all in the air. That's well, and everything is warm after you swim in two degrees. Yeah, so I did my little fire here. Looks good. I'm going to put some more inside. And then we are boiling some water for coffee. So I'm going to put some clothes on. And I'm going to go outside and sit in the sun with the boys. This day has been the craziest ever. We've done so much stuff and had such a beautiful day. It is Sunday morning and we need to pack up and leave quite quickly. Hey, you see it? Because Grim, he has a cut on his paw. And it's been super fine. Not a big problem at all. We've given him, you know, some painkillers every day. And we've taken him to the vet and done everything he said. But today we woke up and I looked at his paw. And it's twice the size of what it should be. And it's super warm. So he's probably gotten an infection, you know. So we need to just pack up and go back to the village. So we can take him to the vet and get some antibiotics and whatever they want. But I feel so bad for him. But I gave him a painkiller so he's in less pain. And that's what happens sometimes. And we're in the middle of nowhere. So I'm just happy it's not something worse. Because then it would be difficult to get any help. But he seems to be in good spirits. And yeah, we're just getting everything ready now. Here comes someone. Oh, the glacier drops. So what we do when we pack up here, when we leave, we have to take everything out of the fireplace. Yeah, so what we do is we clean out the fireplace. Take all the ash out and clean that. And then we sweep the floors. We wipe down any surfaces. We put everything back together. And we make it look super nice and as clean as it should be. And then we take everything with us that we brought. Any trash we have, we also take with us. And we throw away in the village. And yeah, and then we take all of our stuff. And we go back to the boat. And we head home. Now we have cleaned, made it all beautiful. And we're putting Björn on. The Björn on the bear safety thing. It's gonna get super dark. We are fully ready to go. Bye bye, Selby. See you soon again.