CECILIA CLARK P HOTOGRAPHY

We were in Ilulissat last year. This year we took an optional excursion to a small village named Oqaatsut (means Cormorants in Greenlandic). Leaving the port by small boat, we had a good view of the Ilulissat's colorful houses and the Black Church along the way. The Black Church (Zion's Church) was built of wood between 1779 and 1782. It was funded mostly by whale oil contributions and was once the largest man-made building in Greenland. In 1929 the church was moved slightly

View of the Icefjord from Ilulissat, Greenland We had a bit of a late start for our West Greenland cruise after fog in Nuuk prevented our flight from leaving Newark, New Jersey, until the next day. There were 12 of us marooned in Newark for a second day. We arrived in Nuuk on the day of departure (July 31) and were quickly transferred to the Hurtigruten Expedition MS Fridtjof Nansen. The ship departed that evening. Fog was dropping fast but a bit of a sunset was visible as we