Now that we're both feeling better, we finally made it out on a Zodiac cruise, planning to swing around a small island and then go along the ice wall....the longest ice wall in the Northern hemisphere at 130 kilometers.
But, on the far side of the little island was a polar bear, just hanging out and thinking about raiding the Arctic Tern nests. The birds were protesting, repeatedly dive-bombing the bear. Anyway, we stayed just offshore--you're not allowed to approach closer than 300 meters. All of the Zodiac drivers carry range-finders for this purpose.
He or she is a bit out of focus--moving Zodiac, plus the camera not being certain what the focal point was supposed to be, but you can definitely see that it's a polar bear.
When we finally left the polar bear, we continued on to the ice wall, passing a couple of spectacular icebergs along the way. One was particularly striking.
The Greg Mortimer through the iceberg
And then after we got back to the ship, there were these really cool "braided" clouds. I need to track Marcos down to find out more about them.
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