Weather conditions prevented us from tendering at Qaqortoq, which saved us from having to learn how to pronounce it. To make up for it the captain zipped across southern Greenland and entered Prince Christian Sound's southern entrance at about 5:30pm.
PCS is located on the southeast coast of Greenland. Here's a picture of the ship's navigation screen that shows our path. The arrow at the bottom left was our position then, and the red line with dots is our projected path.
We had been traveling in fog and wind, but it cleared as we entered. The channel is narrow and surrounded by high mountains, so the wind was very light during our passage. With the sun it was actually pleasant on deck.
We pass an NCL ship shortly after the entrance.
The people are lined up on the 14th deck, and the mountains tower far above them.
Icebergs in the channel
Strange markings on this 'berg, about 100 meters long.
At the bottom of the mountain is a small town, Aappilattoq with about 100 residents.
Closeup of a portion of the town. Among the places I would not like to live, this is high on the list.
An expedition ship, Ponant Le Champlain with about 200 guests was shuttling people to shore very near the town using their Zodiacs.
After the series of hairpin turns, we cruised along the southern end of the Greenland ice cap where glaciers meet the sound.
The ship entered a short fjord and pulled up near the glacier face. The wait staff from the buffet started their evening party early, taking selfies with the glacier in the background.
As we exited PCS the moon rise was pretty eerie.
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