Smith Sound is like a gateway for the expeditions doing to the South Pole. How fear the ship can go depends of the ice conditions.
Our captain decided that after reaching 80 deg 5 min North it is not possible to sail further north. The sound was full of icebergs
and sea ice. We were slaloming between them. Travellers aboard are not happy but the officers are jocking:
Do you remember what was happened to “Titanic”?
We are heading south. The nice sun compensates little bit our frustration.
In the late afternoon we are already on the anchor at the coast of Greenland. In the middle of nowhere,
No immigration control! 🙂
The bare place is called on the maritime maps Rensselaer Bay, It has high brown cliffs on the both sides of the mouth of the dry river
coming from the inland glacier. After landing by zodiac I was climbing little hill overlooking the river bed. I built there stone inukshuk
(inuit marker) to have something on the front of my picture. I saw later many people from the expedition photographing my inukshuk.
I hope it will survive strong Arctic winds.
