Saturday, 11 June 2016

Week one in Svalbard

So despite wearing seal hats as polar bear lures, no sightings so far!  Plenty of other lovely wildlife though and amazing scenery.  Here are a few photos so far...

Heading off for a day on the boat... 





The northern fulmars here are the same species as in the UK but much much darker in colour.





One of the glaciers near Longyearbyen




We stopped at Pyramiden which is an abandoned Russian mining town.  Here we were shown around by Denis, who was the maddest guide I have ever had.  He is an emo from a small Siberian village who decided to come and live in the abandoned village a couple of years ago.



A little auk tries unsuccessfully to take off as the boat approaches!