Red Penguins in the Arctic?

This is what we called ourselves. When we all donned our Arctic jackets we looked like a colony of new wildlife camped out on land!

This is 14th of July Bay or Fjortende Julibukta. It was charted and named by Duke Albert I of Monaco as an homge to the French National Day during his summer expeditions in 1906/07.

We had sightings of puffins along the cliffs as we made our way to the shore. Not easy to photograph from an inflatable!! And Svalbard reindeer and Arctic foxes greeted us too. 

We also had a Zodiac tour of the glacier you can see in the background on this shot.

And, yes, we did get to see those big white fluffy things today - a mother and her cub. We were on the other side of the fjord - Ny London, when we got the call to say they'd been spotted. So all 12 Zodiacs were launched and we did several slow and careful rounds to move past them and just watch. Everyone was silent - except for a flurry of camera shutters as your Zodiac past them. It was just fantastic.