We have had a little surprise on our way to Greenland. The Captain has decided to divert our course and we are going to enter Prins Christianssund at the tip of Greenland.

Coming into the channel we see our first bergie bits and growlers. This 100 km channel is awe inspiring.

The channel was an ancient glacier cutting sheer walls in a valley that has now been submerged. Higher up the walls are the U shaped valleys of long gone tributary glaciers.

We pass by a number of present day glaciers that feed off the Greenland Ice Sheet that covers most of the country.

The weather is overcast, mist and cloud floating around creates an eerie atmosphere. Bergie bits and growlers float around in the channel.

There is one small village on the edge of the channel, seemingly in the middle of nowhere.

Three kayakers paddle by!
The channel narrows considerably and finally joins fjords and the ship twists and turns through these making its way to the open sea.

Our first stop in Greenland is to be the small village of Nanortalik, on an island of the same name. About 1300 people live there. It has taken all day to navigate along the channel and fjords and we will reach Nanortalik in the morning.