Bear Islands and Syd Kap, Scoresby Sund, Greenland. Day 48. 15th August 2013.

We went out in the zodiacs in the morning at the Bear Islands, navigating around in a forest of huge icebergs.

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It was raining most of the day but that didn’t dampen our enthusiasm for the spectacular scenery around us.

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Some remarkable patterns in the ice, too.  I think the blue bands are fissures that have refrozen.

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Then we encountered a polar bear swimming in the water (water trail at bottom left).

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He got to land, looked at us for a while, then disappeared out of sight.

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Later in the afternoon we had a landing at Syd Kap.  Even some places in eastern Greenland you can find wildflowers.

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This is an ancient Inuit meat safe or fridge in the context of the environment.  They could put say a seal kill in there with stones over the top, safe from arctic foxes and polar bears.

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