A very small post from me this time because I only snapped a few photos before we headed off on our day’s excursion ashore.
Following on from our unexpected drinking session in Ísafjörður and sail away from that port in the evening, we found ourselves already at anchor in the last of the Icelandic ports we’d never visited before, Grundarfjörður, the next morning. As I’ve already mentioned, we would be taking an organised tour while at this port in Iceland but if you’re not the sort that takes trips or you’re thinking of cruising to Iceland with Princess Cruises and want to see what sort of things might distract you on the ship while everyone else is having their breath taken away by the landscapes, here’s the sort of things the ship laid on back in July, 2022.
The thing that the port of Grundarfjörður is probably most famous for is its nearby mountain, Kirkjufell. Its distinctive shape makes it one of the most photographed mountains in Iceland, but you’ll have to search online for pictures of Kirkjufell if you’re not familiar with it because, like the day before, some low cloud had accompanied our cruise ship around the Icelandic coastline and hidden the top from view. We hoped that by the time we returned to the ship later in the day we’d have better conditions for some better photographs.
Nevertheless, the views from the cruise ship were still lovely. Iceland looks incredible no matter what the weather is like.
We’d had to set our alarm for not long after six in the morning because of the duration of our cruise excursion. Breakfast done, we had a little time in our room and on our balcony, looking at the tender boats operating, before we shot off to meet up with our group for the day.
In the next post in this Sky Princess Norway and Iceland cruise travelogue series we’ll make the first stop of our day’s tour from Grundarfjörður when we visit the black sand beach at Djúpalónssandur.