Another voyage on the Sergei Vavilov, to see the wildlife and landscapes of the Svalbard archipelago. Not a lot of sea ice still left early in the season, but where there was fast ice, the polar bears were concentrated to a degree not seen by me before. The limited fast ice in Storfjorden was a temporary home and larder for at least 30 bears, many of them mothers with cubs of varying years. Most looked to be reasonably well fed, at this stage. By the end of the voyage, 10 days later, the fast ice was shredded to icy rubble by the wind and swell. Plenty of moody evocative landscapes as always in Svalbard, and plenty of other wildlife to see and and record.