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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
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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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I genuinely believe there's a couple of Winter Olympic events that I could have had a solid chance at competing in if I started training four years ago when I last had this thought.
February 10, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Heat seekers: amazing thermal images from the Winter Olympics
Heat seekers: amazing thermal images from the Winter Olympics
Photographers using compact thermal-imaging cameras have crafted eerie and ‘poetic’ results at the Milano Cortina Games
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February 10, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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February 9, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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This is going to a thread collating all the books I've read through 2026. I fell off the reading wagon a wee bit last year, but have been making the effort to get back on track again #AmReading #BookSky #Books
a woman in a blue dress is reaching for a book on a ladder
Alt: A clip from the Disney animation of Beauty and the Beast, with Belle in the library. A woman in a blue dress is reaching for a book on a ladder
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February 10, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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Snacks prepared and bags packed. Ready for the airport in the morning.
A close up of an orange duffel bag and a grey and orange ski bag Piles of snack bags and energy bars laid out on a blanket
February 8, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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It was a pretty quiet January at home for a change, mainly sheltering from the wild and windy winter weather. Doing cosy stuff like reading books, baking bread and doing jigsaws by the fire. #winter
A slightly dog-eared paperback copy of the book The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett lying on a blanket. A view of the village under grey skies in a rare break in the rain, with rolling white water hitting the outside of the harbour A completed jigsaw with a collage of tiger faces as the design. Quite a tricky one. Another jigsaw with a design featuring the leaves of houseplants. I enjoyed this one more.
February 2, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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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 A bowl of crab claws and salad
October 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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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.
October 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Just another outstanding day at work #PolarGuide #Greenland #NorthWestPassage
📷 Rachelle Mackintosh
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September 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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‘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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August 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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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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August 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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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"
August 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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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
August 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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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 target plate on the range 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.
August 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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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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August 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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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.
August 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Started watching #DestinationX and feel that this is the one thing in life that all my skills and experience have prepared me for.
August 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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“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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August 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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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.
August 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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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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July 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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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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July 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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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.
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July 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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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
A graphic for the Tall Ships Races event in Aberdeen held between 19th and 22nd July 2025, with the text "I'm a tall ships volunteer" and "sea you there!"
July 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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BBC News - Flood alert for Highland and Moray areas affected by wildfires - BBC News
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Wildfires shut roads in Highlands and Moray
Firefighters are dealing with incidents near Forres and Carrbridge.
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June 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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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
The ABERDEEN sculpture in Union Terrace Gardens, surrounded by green on a sunny day, with the silver granite building of the central library and His Majesty's theatre behind A rainbow-coloured unicorn constructed from trash materials on the end of a building on the NUART trail A mirror sculpture of a unicorn hidden amongst the greenery under a tree in Union Terrace Gardens Monochrome street art portrait of a woman holding a small unicorn tucked into an old doorway on Correction Wynd
May 31, 2025 at 6:51 AM