Polar Bear - Svalbard - 19 - Tracks
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A large flat beach exposed at low tide with the very recent tracks of a large polar bear. It raised the tension a little to think that a bear had very recently been this way and may still be around, we did eventually locate it, on a distant hillside and heading in the other direction.
Photo; © Paul Ward - These are pictures from a cruise around Svalbard inside the Arctic Circle in high summer.