{"id":456,"date":"2016-07-13T07:17:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T11:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/?p=456"},"modified":"2016-08-07T02:17:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T06:17:43","slug":"july-12-prins-christian-sund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/2016\/07\/13\/july-12-prins-christian-sund\/","title":{"rendered":"July 12: Prins Christian Sund"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Prins
Prins Christian Sund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Until now Glacier Bay<\/em> in Alaska was the most impressive place I\u2019ve ever seen, along with Doubtful Sound <\/em>in New Zealand.\u00a0 Prins Christian Sund<\/em>, at the southern tip of Greenland, is now another one of those places and may now actually be the<\/u> most impressive place I\u2019ve ever seen.\u00a0 It makes most other places look like Kansas.<\/p>\n

\"Glacier
Glacier in Prins Christian Sund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were majestic glaciers coming down from the Greenland Ice Cap.\u00a0 There were mountain ridges that resembled serrated knives and mountain peaks like spear points.<\/p>\n

\"Prins
Prins Christian Sund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For my Dutch readers: It reminded me of a landscape Maarten Toonder might have drawn. \u00a0I saw hanging glaciers that spawned numerous waterfalls.\u00a0 In any other setting they would be major attractions but here they were merely interesting details in a much grander context.<\/p>\n

\"Iceberg
Iceberg in Prins Christian Sund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And then there were the fantastic looking ice bergs.\u00a0 I spent much time on the sky deck, the top of the ship and best place from where to appreciate the grandeur. \u00a0But I also tracked seven or eight miles running from one end of the ship to the other.\u00a0 It was tiring but it was difficult to choose a time to go inside because, just when you thought you\u2019d seen it all there was something even more spectacular to behold.<\/p>\n

\"Cruising
Cruising Prins Christian Sund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I took more pictures than ever and none of them look like they are able to capture the place; it\u2019s hopeless.<\/p>\n

\"Prins
Prins Christian Sund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the beginning of the day the weather was gray and rainy.\u00a0 But that created the impression of how magnificently forbidding this place can be.\u00a0 Towards the end of the day the sky broke and the late day sun and clear air created very sharp images.<\/p>\n

\"Prins
Prins Christian Sund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About one out of three times this cruise must be skipped because of fog, or icebergs blocking the channel.\u00a0 There were two bergs at the entrance of the narrowest passage but our captain carefully floated our sixty thousand ton ship past them.<\/p>\n

\"Rotterdam
Rotterdam in Prins Christian Sund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are sometimes helicopters scouting ahead whether the ship can go through.\u00a0 There was a copter flying past our ship at one point.<\/p>\n

Even if the rest of the trip is a failure, today made it all worthwhile.\u00a0 Nothing else matters.<\/p>\n

\"Prins
Prins Christian Sund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Photographs \u00a9 2016 P.J. Gardner<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Until now Glacier Bay in Alaska was the most impressive place I\u2019ve ever seen, along with Doubtful Sound in New Zealand.\u00a0 Prins Christian Sund, at the southern tip of Greenland, is now another one of those places and may now actually be the most impressive place I\u2019ve ever seen.\u00a0 It makes most other places look … Continue reading “July 12: Prins Christian Sund”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}