We used this day to further explore the wild side of Baffin Island – making our way into the Sam Ford Fjord. The fjord, surrounded by mountains up to 1700 meters, did welcome us with wonderful vistas – which only got more beautiful the deeper we got into the fjord. The weather – sunshine, blue skies, with occasional atmospheric cloud cover – surely did help here.

It was also here, where we had our first polar bear sighting … actually four of them … though too far away for my eyes and my camera … I did not see more than something white moving in the water, on the rocks and ice …