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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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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
October 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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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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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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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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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold. A social history of women + working classes in Victorian London through the lens of the Whitechapel murders, giving voice to victims often forgotten in more sensational accounts of the crimes. #amreading #history
My Kindle showing the cover of The Five by Hallie Rubenhold, propped up against a large glass of Calafate pisco sour on the bar at Taberna Club de la Unión in Punta Arenas, Chile.
June 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Another book catch up... the audiobook of Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. Klein's thoughts on identity, conspiracy and the mirror world that exists at the bottom of the rabbit hole inspired by confusions with "the other Naomi"
#amreading #audiobook
The audiobook cover of Doppelganger by Naomi Klein on the Libby app.
June 30, 2025 at 5:25 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
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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
A large screen in a dark cinema showing a film sequence of a huge trawler vessel passing an iceberg covered in penguins. The blows of whales are seen in the slate-grey water. The entire scene looks very monochrome
May 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Another read onboard #BarkEuropa with Where The Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social, inspired by the I'll-fated Franklin expedition to find the #NorthWestPassage #amreading #horror
The paperback book of Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes with the view from the deckhouse window to the main deck of Bark Europa.
May 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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A long time at sea, sailing to Antarctica, cut off from the rest of the world... Perfect for a horror story like Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, inspiration for The Thing. This edition is hand illustrated by Todd Thyberg, gifted to the library on #BarkEuropa #amreading #PolarExploration #horror
A hardback letterpress edition of Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell lying on the chart table of tall ship Bark Europa The inside cover of the book Who Goes There? with a hand drawn illustration of McReady by Todd Thyberg The Thing appears. An illustration from the book Who Goes There?
May 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Catching up with the backlog of books read this year with Soundings: Journeying North in the Company of Whales by Doreen Cunningham, tracing migration routes of grey whales and bowhead whales against the backdrop of a warming Arctic #amreading #memoir
The cover of the kindle edition of Soundings by Doreen Cunningham, showing a grey whales with her calf, accompanied by a can of Patagonia Mylodon lager, against the backdrop of Torres del Paine.
May 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Beltane sunrise paddle out of Stonehaven, and a close encounter with dolphins just off Downie Point.
A paddleboard sitting on the deck at the top of a shingle beach, the sea in the bay is mirror flat and golden with the reflected sunrise.
May 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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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 first light of the day on the dark water of the Antarctic Sound.
March 30, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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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
A woman with blonde hair and a bobble hat high over the deck of the ship. She is smiling. A guy in a yellow jacket and sunglasses high over the deck of the ship. He is smiling. A guy in a yellow hat and dark glasses high over the deck of the ship. He is leaning back, making a gesture to the photographer and smiling. A woman in black leaning out from the futtock shrouds as she climbs up the mast. She is laughing with the photographer.
March 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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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
Climbing safety training briefing for the voyage crew. A group of people gathered under the main mast shrouds looking at another person climbing up the rat lines. Looking up at a person on the futtock shrouds as they climb to the first platform on the main mast.
March 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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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
A sunset sky of golden orange and deep indigo, with low cloud in silhouette and a line of ragged mountains on the horizon, reflected in the dark water below.
February 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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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
Dutch tallship Bark Europa at anchor in front of the glacier at Port Lockroy in Antarctica on a gloomy day. The top of the ice wall is lost in the low snow clouds.
February 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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More long bus journeys into Chile and time chilling in my tent after days of hiking mean I was able to get through the audiobook of Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel. I feel like I knew the history already but the story brings a new vigour to the characters #amreading #HistoricalFiction
A screenshot of the Libby app showing the audiobook cover of Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel, with golden tudor rose in the centre
January 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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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
Cresting the first rise on the route from Torres Central to Serón, leaving the busiest part of the national park behind. Looking into the valley with landskeins of hills behind and a wide sky overhead. A lone hiker with a large backpack on a rise next to a fence, with rolling hills and a lake beyond. The clouds in the sky look endless. A slightly panoramic shot showing a narrow track along the edge of a hill above a river valley, with dark mountains lying beyond. Looking back at the rugged hills from the bank of a fast-flowing green-grey river, rich in glacial sediments. The banks are lined with white daisy flowers.
January 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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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
A mug of amber beer and my Kindle with a view of a snowcapped mountain in the background. The Towers are just visible over the shoulder of the hill.
January 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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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
Passing the Torres ranger base, before the final ascent of the trail. The sheer walls of the Torres del Paine are hidden be the surrounding hills Looking up the valley towards Chileno camp from Pasó de Viento / Windy Pass at the trail ahead Crossing the swing bridge soon after passing the Torres hotel. The first and last, and probably the most solid bridge on my Torres del Paine circuit trek. The Torres del Paine. Towers of pale grey igneous rock rising sheer from an opaque green-blue lochan. Scraps of a glacier cling to their lower flanks
January 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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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
First glimpse of the Torres Central refuge on a grey, rainy day. The low cloud is obscuring the Towers and the tops of the lower hills in front of them. The Río Paine, a grey river winding through a gloomy landscape under heavy grey clouds. Waiting in the rain for the bus to the welcome centre with a mate. A selfie with my waterproof jacket against a gloomy grey backdrop.
January 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM