Today we have been one month on Svalbard. At half past seven in the morning the four from Werenhus arrived at Hyttevika. They were on their way to the Polish station to board M/S Horyzont II for the trip back to Poland. They reported that the crew from the station made an attempt to come to Hyttevika by Zodiac last night, to pick up their luggage and bring us another engine. But encountered with 2 m steep swell they turned back. Although weather is fine today we had to stay another day at the cottage to be present in case the outboard engine is delivered and luggage – including part of ours – being picked up.

A yell from outside – a polar bear approaching from the north. It quickly turned around and disappeared. Although we watched the area for more than an hour we didn’t see it pass farther uphill or by swimming across the bay, as the bears usually do here. Thus, we wait for further visits…

Henning Lorenz, Uppsala universitet