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Vagabond Vicky

@vickyinglis13.bsky.social

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Sailor, adventurer, wildlife guide, writer and travel blogger. Ocean Wanderer. Occasional Viking. Mother of penguins. Living the wild life. Views are my own Aberdeenshire / Antarctica / Arctic www.thesevagabondshoes.org

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Jan 4

After poor connection at sea, I've noticed I've picked up some new followers. Hi! By way of reintroduction, I'm Vicky, #PolarGuide + naturalist, a fan of unusual travels, adventures of all sizes + wildlife encounters, with a background as an ocean sailor, occasional Viking + mother of penguins.

At work! Watching the thousands of king penguins of St Andrews Bay, South Georgia from a view point above the colony on a sparkling, blue sky day. One of the most incredible places I've ever seen. My ship, MV Sylvia Earle for Aurora Expeditions, is just offshore beyond the surf. 📷 Howard Whelan.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 1d

This time next year when I'm a millionaire I'm going back for the massive platter of crab that they do. In the meantime they're safe* in their tanks.
*from me, but still available for sale

Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 1d

Took myself out for a fancy dinner in the Bergen Fishmarket. A bowl of crab claws, some gravlaks with sweet mustard sauce, and fresh bread smeared in seaweed garlic butter. Yum

An array of shellfish on display in the fishmarket

Gravlaks and knekkebrød with a glass of white wine

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 2d

A driech day in one of my favourite cities, Bergen. Just passing through on a wee autumn adventure in Norway.

The sign opposite the airport which says "Bergen?" in large yellow letters, surrounded by trees in autumn colours. Like the iconic Hollywood sign but designed for drizzlier weather.

The view from my window of the edge of the fishmarket and the fjord ferry terminal in the driech.

And the view of the picturesque city port, though the upper parts of the mountains and the funicular are obscured by rain clouds.

The old wooden buildings of Bryggen world heritage site in the rain.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Sep 1

Just another outstanding day at work #PolarGuide #Greenland #NorthWestPassage
📷 Rachelle Mackintosh
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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Aug 29

I don't believe you know Greenland 🤔

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · Aug 29

‘We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so.’
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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Aug 29

A stunning approach to the landing at Nuuk airport in Greenland. I'm on the way to join the @aurora_expeditions Sylvia Earle for an epic adventure through the Northwest Passage. #NorthWestPassage #PolarGuide
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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Aug 28

Does that actually mean bin bananas? Didn't matter, the cake was lovely and squishy

A small cardboard box containing a dessert that is part of an airline meal. The box reads "carrot cake. Made with upcycled bananas and carrots"

Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Aug 27

Well, today's plans have been dynamic. Now on the way to somewhere else instead #Greenland

Screenshot of a news article headline about the suspension of international passenger screening at Nuuk, Greenland

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Aug 26

That's a wee bit of a cheat. My best group was from prone, then kneeling. It was less tight standing up as the rifle was a bit too heavy for me

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Aug 25

A great day of skills development training on the Line of Sight full-bore shooting range in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire. Not a bad result either #PolarGuide

A rifle pointing down a shooting range in the hills

A layout showing me holding the rifle for an aimed shot, a paper target with a close grouping in the centre, and a metal target shaped like a roe deer

A button with Line of Sight 500 yards on it.

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Natalie Berry @natalie-berry.com · Aug 14

Yesterday marked 30 years since British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves died in a storm on K2. My story on the Hargreaves-Ballard climbing dynasty in @thefence.bsky.social from last year about risk, control, blame, why people climb and how we tell their stories: www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...

In the Shadow of the Mountain

The soundscape of falling ice.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Aug 12

I had buckfast pulled pork at a place called Smokey Trotters in Glasgow. And scampi fries loaded fries, which is one of the only things that I've had out, said I'd recreate the recipe at home, and actually followed through with it

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Aug 12

Ah, I'd just call it a coke float. Even though it would have any kind of fizzy juice, it would still be a coke float

Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Aug 12

Spider?

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Aug 12

Irn bru affogato is probably the most Glasgow thing after tikka masala.

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LucyCB-T @lucycbt.bsky.social · Aug 11

Poem @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social wrote a few months ago & posted on X as a tribute to the six Al Jazeera journalists killed. 💔

Screenshot of a post on X by Michael Rosen: A poem he wrote a few months ago as a tribute to the six Al Jazeera journalists killed in Gaza.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Aug 8

Started watching #DestinationX and feel that this is the one thing in life that all my skills and experience have prepared me for.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · Aug 4

“There is a problematic underlying approach in how UNEP operates, which is to consider that the people who created the problems, benefited from the problem, have lied about the problem and their responsibility about it for years and decades, are trustworthy partners to solve those problems.”

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks

Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Aug 5

... that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide!

a group of knights sitting in a cave with the words that 's no ordinary rabbit on the bottom

ALT: a group of knights sitting in a cave with the words that 's no ordinary rabbit on the bottom

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Aug 5

I got charged at by one while I was on bear sentry at Beechey Island last year.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Aug 5

I don't get a mobile phone signal at home, so just went out in my pyjamas to stand by the harbour to phone the mechanic about repairs to my van and got caught by the Google Street view car.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Jul 26

What do we really want to see? How realistic are our expectations of the natural world, and how authentic are our experiences? #anthropocene #nature #wildlife
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Polar bears in shopping malls, fibreglass mountains, indoor rainforests: how humans got addicted to faking the natural world

In his new book, The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson reflects on the surreal environments created as people destroy nature, yet crave connection to it

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · Jul 9

Did you know you can get fossils inside other fossils? 🤯

Tiny holes in some of our marine reptile fossils are actually burrows of bone-eating worms which are up to 100 million years old!

They've now been named as new species - find out more about them 👇
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Ancient bone-eating worms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons | Natural History Museum

Bone-eating worms have been cleaning up the ocean floor for over 100 million years.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · Jul 8

"High" and "not high"