12-25-25 (In Progress) On Christmas Day we visited the temple of Dendera dedicated to the goddess Hathor. Here are some highlight photos. I will fill in facts and other details later:

12/24/2025 - In Progress Today we flew to Luxor. Before transferring to the ship, we visited the Temple of Karnak. Later that evening, we saw the Temple of Luxor at night.

December 23, 2025 The Grand Egyptian Museum was amazing. Even with 4 hours to explore there wasn't enough time to see everything...maybe if we'd had 4 days! We visited the Pyramids of Giza next. Brent rode a camel, while I admired the overview of the 3 pyramids together. Then we were able to get close up to the pyramids to see the huge stones that formed the pyramids with no mortar to hold them together. Our final stop was to see the Sphinx.

12-22-2025 - still in progress, but here are some highlights. We visited the Saqqara Step Pyramid Complex this morning. Imhotep designed the first pyramid for King Djoser who ruled Egypt in 2667 to 2648 BC during the 3rd Dynasty. This innovation became the inspiration for the other pyramids that became the iconic resting places for the pharaohs of the Old Kingdom of Egypt. Its six steps are six mastabas stacked on top of each other, each a little smaller that the one below it

August 15, 2025 Captain William Kennedy and his second-in-command, Joseph René Bellot, discovered this strait while searching for the lost Franklin expedition in 1852. This strait separates the northern-most part of mainland North America, Boothia Peninsula, from Somerset Island. It was my favorite day of the trip because we spotted our first of the rare bowhead whales, had our closest polar bear sighting. We also saw our first mother with cubs and our first musk ox. The bow

August 14, 2025 Beechey Island became famous as the burial site for the early deaths of 3 members of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition to discover a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. In 1845 to 1846 the expedition wintered on Beechey Island when their ships were stopped by the ice. The graves and hundreds of tin cans were discovered 5 years later by people in search of the lost expedition. Some people believe they may have perished from lead pois

August 13, 2025 Today we visited Dundas Harbor on Devon Island. Devon Island is the largest uninhabited island in the world. In the past, there have been small settlements, such as the most recent Royal Canadian Mounted Police outpost. We woke up to a sea of icebergs in the morning before making our way to Devon Island. We passed the Kaparoqtalik Glacier on Bylot Island. Once we arrived at Devon Island, the ship anchored. We took the zodiacs to the shore and walked along the

August 12, 2025 We reached Canada today. Unfortunately, we were not able to go ashore. We had to clear customs and there was another ship...

August 10, 2025 The town of Sisimiut is just above the Arctic Circle. It is the second largest town in Greenland. Like other Greenland...

August 9, 2025 Ice blocked our way into Ilulissat today. The town, the third largest in Greenland, lies beside a magnificent ice fjord....

August 7, 2025 The first lag of our cruise ended in Kangerlussuaq. While the ship off-loaded passengers not continuing on with us and...

August 5, 2025 Today we took a zodiak out to the Evigheds glacier and were able to land and walk up close to it. Because we were with...

August 4 There were no landings or zodiak cruises today, but beautiful scenery as we made our way to Evighedsfjorden.

August 3, 2026 We visited Nuuk today. We took the shuttle to the church and walked to the museum to learn more about Greenland's history....

August 2, 2025 Erik the Red founded the first Viking settlement in Greenland. It was warmer back then so he could have a successful farm...

August 1, 2025 We visited our first town in Greenland today. Qaqortoc was very quaint with colorful houses and many wildflowers in bloom....

July 31, 2025 As a special surprise, our Image Masters group was able to take a zodiac ride ahead of the ship up to the tide water...

07/30/2025 In the early morning, we made our way to our landing site at Skjoldungen Fjord. We put on our boots and life jackets and...

July 29, 2025 After a day at sea, we arrived in Greenland. Our first stop was Umivik Bay where we went on our first zodiac ride. Because...

July 27, 2025 Eldfell is on the far left of the town of Heimaey. The rocky outcrop at the left of the harbor was form by the lava from...