Bear Island bids us farewell with an impressive light show of blue, green and grey. It's Wednesday afternoon and we drop anchor heading south.
You can tell from the birdlife that the distance to land is increasing. At first we spot the puffins breeding on the coast, until we are only accompanied by the fulmars.
The highlight is a large group of fin whales that repeatedly appear around the ship. These marine mammals, up to 22 metres long, are the second largest living animals after the blue whale.

After 2 days heading south, we have land in sight again: we make a short stop in Torsvåg, the northernmost mainland harbour on our route to Tromsø.
In the evening we have fish before falling into our bunks, full and motionless.
Tomorrow we continue directly to Tromsø.

We are experiencing the last days of the polar summer up here. Since we crossed about 71° north, the sun has been above the horizon for 24 hours. Now the night is already 3 hours long again.