Svalbard in May 2023. A super Natural World Safari expedition (probably helped having Will, as the owner, along with us.!) Superb French crew - and chef - on Polarfront , with two excellent guides in Bob and Lisa. And a super bunch of fellow explorers!
Svalbard Church
Svalbard Church in context
Svalbard Valley
Svalbard has been - and still is courtesy of Mr Putin - a mining town
Snow Bunting - the only songbird in Svalbard according to Lisa
Leaving Svalbard
Svalbard coastline
Northern Fulmar - not snot on the nose but how they excrete salt
Stunning coastline
Fulmar having a wash
Coast - with amazing rock formations (thank you Bob!)
Folded landscape (metamorphic pace Bob!) with ice
Eider duck
First walrus sighting - slugs as some call them!
Walrus from the Zodiac
Walrus group - collective noun is flock, herd, huddle, pod - or my favourite since everyone says how cute they are - an ugly of walrus
We take an Ice Walk very seriously
Ice walk view
Ice walk in fjord
Ice walk panorama with glacier in the distance
Cold ice walk scenery
Incredible ice
Incredible ice
Incredible ice
Incredible ice
Incredible ice
July 14 Glacier
Close up on 14 July Glacier
July 14 Glacier Panorama
July 14 Glacier rock - nice metamorphic Bob?
Lunar landscape - or glacier
as before
Just look at me
Tusker
Friends
Chilled walrus
Oh - life is so stressful....
Pack Ice
Pack ice pancake
Polarfront working the pack ice
As we break through the pack ice we liberate small fish from underneath - which the gulls then liberate
Polarfront underwater inverted..
Atlantic puffin - a long way from where we have seen them previously
Pack Ice Racing
Pack ice beauty
Stunning ice formations
What do you see - a bear, toilet seat or ???
Our first polar bear
Crossing the snow
The scale of it all .....
Polar bear alone ...
.. and with friend
a roll in the snow to cool off
That feels good !!
KongsFjord
KongsFjord
KongsFjord
Eider ducks
KongsFjord
KongsFjord glacier and mountains - the most sublime
KongsFjord
KongsFjord
Beluga whale
Beluga whales
Flock of Auks
Magnificent walrus
Do my teeth look big in this?
Walrus
Walrus
Walrus
Walrus and image of Zodiac
Walrus scene
Walrus and mirage ice floes
BFF in walrus
Walrus with Zodiac and Polarfront
Second superb polar bear sighting
Polar Bear
Polar Bear
Polar Bear
Polar Bear in context ....
Polar Bear
Polar Bear
Polar Bear
Polar Bear
Polar Bear fly by
Polar Bear
Trappers hut
Trying to convey the scale of this huge bluff
Gull nest
Arctic Fox
Arctic Fox - which Lisa pointed out is a lactating female
Distant Bear
Distant Bear
Farewell