Trollfjord

The day that we were in Solvavaer, the Captain announced that at 6:30 we would enter Trollfjord, which is a two-kilometer long Fjord inside the Arctic Circle, with some of the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen. These pictures don't begin to do it justice.  The fjord itself is quite narrow and as the ship moved slowly through it, the granite cliffs on either side were so majestic that I was reduced to tears.  The boats you see are Zodiac rubber rafts carrying some of our shipmates.  Tom and I had decided to skip the rafting experience but when a few of our mates described being on a small boat in the midst of all that grandeur, I for one wished we had done it as well.  I hope you can get a sense of the scale in the first picture which shows a couple of smallish boats against the cliff on one side.

A couple of the Zodiacs from our ship

This is from the upper deck watching the ship move through the fjord.

It almost felt as if you could reach out and touch it.