2 days at sea heading back to Svalbard, billed as for relaxing and sleeping and debriefing and that sort of thing…..I’ve spent ages on deck just reveling in the amazing light  on the sea, and the surface of the sea in all its different moods and formations, whales swimming past….it is just simply magical. This morning we stopped and drifted, surrounded by humpback whales, we could hear them breathing, feel them rolling over in the water, swimming round the ship, somehow communing with us, closer and closer, we could see their spout holes, the knobbles on their backs, the detail on their tails and fins, on and on they stayed, spending time with us. How lucky am I to be here and be with these magical creatures who choose to linger with us?