Wakeup call was at 0700, an hour before
breakfast as opposed to the normal only half an hour before. This was due to traditional
arctic plunge being on the schedule this morning from the ship’s gangway.
People lined up and as it got to their turn they got a belt in which a rope was
clicked onto so if they needed assistance they could just be pulled up and out.
The air was around 3°C and so was the water, so it wasn’t quite the Blue Lagoon
outside Reykjavik.
People who do this stuff voluntarily are
insane.
Weirdos.
The face of regret.
Big thanks to Jacqueline Deely for this very... flattering photo of me.
After breakfast we went out on our last zodiac
cruise of the trip. We puttered about among icebergs and for once it was dry
and the sun started slowly burning through the cloud cover. It’s always amazing
getting up close to the large blocks of ice and the surrounding area was
stunningly covered in a mix of red vegetation and dark grey rock.
Back on the ship we had lunch and at the same
time the we raised the anchor and started heading back east again, leaving the
fjord. When we came near Hall Bredning a large amount of huge ice bergs were
drifting about, and as the bridge determined that we would have plenty of time
to get to Iceland they decided to spend a few hours just zig-zagging through
the area getting to see some absolutely stunning and enormous icebergs. They
are still not nearly the same size as the ones you get to see in Antarctica
(massive tabular icebergs) but here they feel like they have more personality
as opposed to the tabular ones due to the large differences in sizes and
shapes. After dinner we had a beautiful sunset, a fitting goodbye from
Greenland which has shown itself from a very positive side despite the at times
slightly questionable weather.
At around midnight we reached open waters and
while the rocking did increase it is – so far – nothing to really worry about.
Yet.
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