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Just after Sigrid finished her dispatch last night our campsite was again visited by polar bears. This time it was two bears. One huge mamma bear and her two year old cub. Unlike our curious visitor earlier in the evening these bears were not easy to scare off and they got very close to our dogs and tents - we measurered the distance at about 6 meters. It took about 5 bear bangers and flares to scare the bears off and we were all pretty scared when they got as close as they did. Luckily for us the bears are well fed this time of year as they feed on the newly born seal pups and the adult seals that are nesting under the snow on top of the ice.
Today when we continued our journey we saw over 20 different bear tracks and it became clear to us that we now are in an area that is a great habitat for the bears.
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