Evighedsfjorden zodiac cruise

Paul was up with the fog last night from around midnight and didn’t get to bed until after 6 am this morning.

He was awake in time for one of the last colour groups to go for a zodiac ride.

We were first taken by zodiac towards the foot of the side of a glacier, and we breached onto a nice smooth rock in order for us to step on land and see a bit of the tidal glacier, as well as the rest of it on the mountainside above us.

After a glass of champagne (a table was set up on the rocks), we walked/climbed up to a ridge and bit higher up so that we could see more of the base of the glacier.

Unfortunately, low cloud cover hampered visibility higher up. The glacier above us was dirty, having gathered a lot of dirt as it scraped its way down the valleys high above us. (As one guest commented: "it looks like someone had forgotten to clean the glacier!") The part of the glacier to our left and that went down to the waterline was fairly clean.

After 20 minutes/half an hour, we climbed back into a waiting zodiac and had a cruise to see the cleaner side of the glacier. While viewing it, quite a bit of calving took place, and one bigger calving caused waves, and we bobbed over the resulting micro tsunami motion.

With the excitement over, we went along the coastline of the fjord to see cliffs full of birds, some nesting. Kittiwakes, Arctic petrels and Arctic terns. It was lovely.

All too soon, we had to head back to the ship. This afternoon, the Venture will continue to go further up the fjord for more scenic cruising.Leia mais