Not surprisingly our immediate thought was to jump in the Zodiac and head back to the yacht, where we discovered that the kayakers were similarly inclined to get out of the water.
Then it was all hands to the cameras:
We later found piles of narwhal chunks that hunters had left behind, so we guessed that the polar bear had been scavenging and got lucky:
It didn't seem that impressed with this pap session, and after looking at us with disdain it picked up what looked like a narwhal tail and trotted away to a safe hiding place.
See a polar bear - tick!
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Now this is the kind of Polar Bear post I'd rather see.
Yup, this polar bear looked healthy all right.
The polar bear had plenty of easy meat in front of him, why would it bother to chase a bunch of relatively scrawny tourists? So you were probably safe. Unless he had a taste for them perhaps. How does human meat compare to seal I wonder - John, we don't want to see a post on a taste test!
Awesome to see a polar bear in the wild though. Savour it while we can. :-(
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