Expedition Danube – Alaska
From the Danube via Iceland and Greenland to Labrador – winters in the Arctic ice and four North Atlantic crossings.
Expeditions & Discovery Tours
With Gypsy Life to where the charts end
For more than two decades Harald and Silvia Paul have lived aboard the expedition ship they designed themselves – among pack ice, northern lights and solitude. Here you will find their journeys, logbooks, photos and reports.
- covered with Gypsy Life
- over 100,000 nm
- Engine hours at sea
- 14,000 h
- North Atlantic crossed
- 4 ×
- continuously under way
- since 1998
Who we are
A life in harmony with nature
Harald Paul, the 63-year-old trained farmer who gave up his 25 years of self-employment in forestry and landscape management, has now devoted himself to a bigger task.
Together with his wife Silvia, after several years of practical experience at sea, they had a small expedition ship built for themselves.
Hands-on reporting from nature is part of the new field of work. The aim is that beautiful landscape and wildlife photographs let everyone decide for themselves what they can still change in order to increase their own contribution to nature conservation.
Under Way
Expeditions
From the Göta Canal to Labrador: every voyage has its own logbook and its own photo gallery.
Saimaa Wilderness / Karelia
Trial voyage through the Baltic and the Saimaa Canal into the Finnish lakeland – with new equipment for a self-sufficient power supply.
Canada Adventure Project
Via Scotland, the Faroes and Greenland to Baffin Island: wintering on the Labrador coast, in the middle of ice and snow.
Expedition Ice
7,000 nautical miles in nine months: from Holland via Tromsø to Spitsbergen, along the pack ice to Greenland.
News
News from on board
High Coast
A new report, No. 32 “High Coast”, is finished and can again be ordered by email from harald-paul@haraldpaul.com. This report has plenty of photos…
A Quiet Spell
A new report, “A Quiet Spell”, is finished. Anyone who has known us for a while knows that the title sounds paradoxical, because a winter with ships in the ice can only mean wor…
Northbound Again
“Northbound Again” is my thirtieth report for you. As usual, plenty of photos to illustrate it and plenty of text. Many of you know that this is actua…
Read & watch
Books, films and “Paul’s Reports”
First-hand experiences – as a book, as a DVD and as an ongoing series of reports by email.
Freedom – Adventure – Wilderness Canada
An expedition to one’s own limits
Canada Adventure
An unforgettable experience
Northbound
To Spitsbergen by motorboat
Expedition Ice
An adventure journey into the polar region
The Logbooks
Four voyages, documented without a gap – with position, wind, weather and water temperature.
The Photo Galleries
Icebergs, whales, northern lights and everyday life on board – photos from twenty years.