Wer left Reykjavick at 6:00 AM Thursday headed for Greenland. We were informed Friday Morning that we would be skipping our stop at Nanortalik because the ice was too heavy at the entrance to and in the fjord leading there. We would have a 3rd day at sea. We were then told that the order of the 3 remaining Greenland ports would be switched because conditions would be much more favorable getting into each of them . Saturday evening as we were about to round the bottom of Greenland we stated to hit unexpected ice and the winds suddenly increased to at one point about 100 MPH and 20 foot seas. It was getting dark so the captain decided to turn around and head south-east to stay away from the ice until light in the morning. We managed to get through this area with no problems and a few icebergs were spotted.
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| First light Thursday morning in Reykjavik harbor |
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| Early morning rise into clouds |
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| Cloudy skies late in the day so nor sunsey seey |
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| Sun didn't show for sunrise |
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| The Captain gave a briefing of conditions and plans |
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| The white arae off the coast is ice |
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| The planned path through the strong winds and ice area outside the whit lines |
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| Red is too much ice for our ship, Our first port of Nanortalik is in the red area |
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| Where we were Friday evening. |
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| We saw some iceburgs |
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| The sun getting ready to set. |
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| Day 3 started with overcast skies |
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| The pools had been empties |
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| The Captain had another briefing about our status. Our track of our previous days' route |
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| Once it got light again and they could see the ice, we started our way north again |
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| Geen line shows the area where there is ice |
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| He then showed us our route down to Newfoundland after we do the 2 stops in Greenland |
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| More icebergs |
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| And a flow of ice |
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| One last iceberg I saw before dark |
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| No sunset seen tonight (11 PM) |
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