Iceland & Greenland Cruise (August) 2024: Day 6 - Nanortalik, Greenland
On day 6, we landed in Nanortalik, Greenland - one of two ports in Greenland that we were to visit. When we got off the tender, the sun was shining, the sky was so blue that I felt that I was dressed inappropriately. Overdressed for sure. Everyone that got to the tender were dressed for cold weather, just like us. My guess is everyone checked the weather forecast and has seen that the high on this day was 32F. I most certainly did not expect a blue sky, sun shining brightly day. Prior to the cruise, I had watched a few YouTube videos on ports in Greenland and had found that Nanortalik is small and can easily be explored on foot. Besides, most of the excursions offered by the ship were boat rides to see icebergs. The rest of the excursions offered were short walking tour of the town/island, which we believed we could accomplish more efficiently. The word Nanortalik means "place of polar bears" in Greenlandic. We did not spot any polar bears at all; we were actually n...
