Prince Christian Sound

If I said before that Dublin was the high point of this 35-day cruise, I now have to retract that. The ride through Prince Christian Sound on Saturday 8/2 was dazzling to just about everyone on the ship. That night in the piano bar, people just shook their heads in reflection of what they’d seen. We must have set some kind of record for most photographs collectively taken on a cruise ship in a six-hour period.

At the southern tip of Greenland is a group of islands, separated by narrow waterways, the longest of which is Prince Christian Sound. Completely inhospitable to life. As our very reserved tour lecturer would put it, the scenery was “extremely dramatic” -- mountains rising 1000 feet straight out of the water, with glaciers breaking through at certain points….. newborn icebergs recently broken off the glaciers…..long waterfalls back down to the sea……..

…….and it just went on and on, for many hours. Around every bend there was more magnificent scenery, and the cameras just kept clicking. The photos below are just a small sample.