East Greenland Cruise - September 2006

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Day 4

We woke to another great day - clear skies and a beautiful sunrise. We had a morning cruise around Iceberg City - an area where the currents push the icebergs into an area of the fjord system that is shallower, so they are anchored on the sea floor and stay put until they melt some more (yes, I know there's definitely a more scientific explanation, but that's the gist of the thing).

Anyway, it was beautiful, although we ended up yet again with the woman who has a peculiar photography technique of holding the camera out at arm's length to take every shot. It was almost like she expected it to blow up or bite her or something.

The icebergs were stunning, and we also saw three seals (and a few birds to get the twitchers all over-excited again - a glaucous gull! Yippee!). There was particularly dramatic arch system with three exits that we kept well clear off, particularly after a large chunk of it fell off while we were watching.

Harefjord

Later that afternoon, we headed out on another zodiac cruise along the front of a huge glacier. We also saw some musk ox on a cliff, and later some people (not me, after the Grand Old Duke of York as in ' he marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again' performance of the day before still preying on my mind) climbed a cliff to walk along the glacier.

Iceberg City