Here’s a new one for your Bucket List — Trollfjord!

In the Arctic Circle, just north of 68 degrees latitude, off the mainland of Norway, hundreds of rocky protuberances vault out of the Arctic Ocean; if your ship’s captain is good at Nintendo Switch 2… maybe, just maybe, he can thread his monstrous ship through this archipelago of peaks.

Which is what happened to us. Our very adept captain piloted our cruise ship (690 passengers) into a devilishly narrow, dauntingly shallow, channel, called the Trollfjord, then at the dead end head of the channel, spun a tight 360 degrees and exited the channel as though the ship were a salmon ready to return to its spawning grounds.

The visuals from this endeavor left me breathless. This may become the visual highlight of our 16-day cruise along the western coast of Norway.

For sure, it was a Stendhal Moment — the visuals were so intense, so breathtaking, that one might faint from the sheer beauty of it all.

The other thing that made today so special — was how long it stayed light.

The shot bellow was taken at 11 pm… the sun was just beginning to set. It stayed dusky light until 2.30 am. And then, an hour later, the sky started to brighten again.

More when it happens…..

Jim