On July 26th we left Paamiut and sailed toward Nanortalik, Greenland, where we are to dock around 9 a.m. the next day. The sunset that night in the late hours of the sail at sea, showed us increasing sea ice, as well as the lovely sinking of the sun behind the mountains above. However, given the complexities of transferring images from iPhone to the poor little overworked laptop with wifi dropping and no wireless signal, that image is stubbornly refusing to wend its way to where I can grab it for my blog, and I have more plans for the day than spending 30 minutes tackling this problem for a single sunset image. So, just imagine it, my friends, as the late John Lennon would sing (as played by Adam in the Billboard Lounge onboard).
Nanortalik was also a tender port, and was where I saw this lovely iceberg as we approached.
We left the port much earlier than planned as the Captain decided to seek shelter to wait out an approaching storm. We sheltered overnight in a small cove on the leeward side of a Greenland mountain. The storm passed but left behind some remnant high seas. We then made our way into the Prince Christian Sund.
In the morning, we could visually see how tough this sund was to navigate with both its narrowness and icebergs. We cautiously threaded the needle as we passed between MANY large beautiful icebergs with many seeming to be within 150 feet of our ship. We have several ice pilots on board, and the Team is using all of its combined skillsets to move us safely through the sund as we pass glacier after glacier as well as hundreds of waterfalls.
On the following day, July 29th, we cruised through the Denmark Straight at sea, heading toward Isafjordur, Iceland.
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