After 32 hours of travel, catching up with old friends, making new ones and settling into our home together for the coming week at sea, this is the night sky we were greeted by.

Amid the deep fjords of Tromsø, a little group of us have come together to explore the waters to the North searching for and hopefully to swim with orca and humpback whales under the the Northern Lights of arctic Norway.

Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Norwegian Tiger Eye’, 30s f/4 ISO1600 8mm