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

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

Just another outstanding day at work #PolarGuide #Greenland #NorthWestPassage 📷 Rachelle Mackintosh www.instagram.com/share/p/_iaF...

‘We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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 www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

“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.”

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.

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 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Fascinated by revalations that have come out around the author of the book/film The Salt Path. I wondered about the progress of Moth's illness after finishing the book, and there just seemed a few other odd things that I couldn't quite put my finger on about the story. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I'm leading a team of Ship Liaison Officers at the Aberdeen Tall Ships Festival at the end of July. Getting stuck in to the event training from this week onwards. #tallshipsaberdeen #sailing

BBC News - Flood alert for Highland and Moray areas affected by wildfires - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A turnaround day in port in Aberdeen let me be a tourist in my hometown, so I went searching for unicorns and followed the city's NUART street art trail #Scotland #Aberdeen

Penguin poop gives off ammonia, which enhances cloud formation and cools coastal Antarctica, allowing more penguins to poop there, probably. 🐧🧪

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Two crew have died and more injured as Mexican sail training vessel Cuauhtémoc collides with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Finland Disco Rammstein for the win #Eurovision2025

I'd like to thank Mrs Forbes, my standard grade history teacher for remembering the name of the assassin who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand after 30 years or so.

Went to the local pub quiz last night and managed to fish a fact from the deepest depths of my brain to be the only person in the room to know the answer to one question. Still my team came in 7th place

Caught David Attenborough's #Oceans documentary at the cinema the other night, and incredible to see on a big screen. Some stunning underwater filming and powerful storytelling, including highlighting the scale of industrial krill fishing in #Antarctica. #DavidAttenborough #blueplanet

Beltane sunrise paddle out of Stonehaven, and a close encounter with dolphins just off Downie Point.

Movies you've watched more than six times using gifs.

Watching animals eat is like my biology crack. I don’t need it, I don’t have to do it, I don’t even always like it, but there’s just something about critters noshing on one another that leaves me gobsmacked. And nothing does it like the comb jelly Beroe [Thread 🧵] 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xkN...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Wordle 1,384 3/6 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 So close

Late season sunrise on the Weddell Sea, at the start of one of the most excellent days of my polar guide experience so far.

The untold stories of female climbers summiting the world’s tallest peaks. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

3 years ago today, I was in the #SouthGeorgia museum in Grytviken when we received exciting news. The #Endurance22 expedition had discovered the wreck of Shackleton's ship. The story of the search is now on the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust website. fmht.co.uk/shackletons-...

This #PancakeDay here's our recipe for pancake ice: 🧊 Get some ice forming on the top of your water 🌊 Bump bits of ice together with small waves ♻️ This rounds their edges as they freeze! 🥞 Grow the disc edges with trapped frozen foam These pancakes will be up to 3m wide + 10m thick. Bon Appétit 👩‍🍳

Portraits of the Europa voyage crew as they complete the first stage of their hands aloft training, climbing up the ratlines on the shrouds to reach the first platform on the main mast. From here they'll learn to move on the yards and work with the sails. #BarkEuropa #PolarGuide #Antarctica

Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed journey to the South Pole captivated the world. But hidden within the legend was a story that has never been told—a love affair between two of the crew who survived. From @tchotchke.bsky.social, it's Atavist no. 160: magazine.atavist.com/from-antarct...

Familiarisation with the ship starts with a safety walk on deck, starting to learn the ropes, and climbing training on the Beagle Channel. #BarkEuropa #PolarGuide #Antarctica

A stunning sunset over the mountains of Ushuaia as Europa set out on the Beagle Channel at the end of last month. #BarkEuropa #PolarGuide #Antarctica

Back to the real world* after an awesome voyage to Antarctica on the tallship Bark Europa with a fantastic crew. Just started sorting out the photos, but expect a lot of icy ship spam incoming. #Antarctica #PolarGuide #BarkEuropa *internet connection

Virgo: You'll receive a gift of fancy soap today. The scent will bring back so many memories. The soap can't wash them away. Nothing can.

My second day on the #TorresDelPaineCircuit had a different vibe, more like walking in the Shire than Mordor, as I walked from Torres Central refuge to Serón camp. Through gnarled woods to wide vistas, and flower-filled meadows along the Paine River #hiking #TurismoChile

Finished my hiking day back at Torres Central refuge, reading Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle with a Calafate beer. The OG South American gap year travel blog #TorresDelPaineCircuit #hiking #TurismoChile

My first day of hiking was an out-and-back trip to the Base of the Towers viewpoint, a safety net to take in the sights incase of poor weather on my final day in the National Park. #TorresDelPaineCircuit #hiking #TurismoChile

The day I headed to Torres del Paine National Park was wet and windy, real Scottish weather as the guy in the gear rental store described it. A bit daunting for setting out on the #TorresDelPaineCircuit #hiking #TurismoChile

A collector's item with the Shipping Forecast for Rockall as Storm Eowyn approaches giving not just Hurricane force 12 winds, but Sea State = Phenomenal (waves >14m). Terrifying!

Lack of storage space on my phone ahead of an exciting trip has finally pushed me into sorting out the large amount of accumulated information in pictures of signs, screens and notice boards from the last three years. Preparing to fall back into the rabbit holes they represent.

Started walking at 3.30am to catch the sunrise hitting the Torres del Paine. The Torres del Paine O circuit Trek completed