….and in front of me and beside me and in fact just everywhere around me! Fantastic animals! And what a sound they make, sort of a cross between pigs and a stag at rutting time as they loll about on the rocks all cutched up together. We watched them for ages, lots of them, some swimming around – a mother and cub popped up a bit close, got a surprise to see us and she ushered her cub away from us and towards the others. On the whole they seemed happy to see us, it felt as though we were their summer entertainment and they were happy to play with us.

And the landscape – the sun lighting up glaciers, rocks, the sea, reflecting off the icebergs which become icy blue turquoise – I could just revel in the landscape forever, the light, the space, the vast uninhabited emptiness of it.

And the icing on the cake? A mother Polar bear with her 2 cubs – we watched them for ages. Sublime!

Yep! I took both of those! Promise!