We docked for a short time outside the small Greenlandic town of Narssaq. Too large to go ashore we stayed just long enough for everyone to enjoy the serene beauty of the area. A small tender was launched to gather a piece of glacial ice that would be used for an ice carving demonstration later in the day. Glacial ice is clear or blue in color and easier to carve than regular ice. 
Even this late in the year a special ice pilot had to accompany our ship through these waters where there were still packs of free floating ice. The captain said that during the spring thaw approximately 1.5 million pounds of polar ice float down the eastern shore of Greenland daily making navigation in this area quite treacherous.
You could once determine a person's occupation by the color of his or her house or office -- red for retail trade, yellow for health care, green for engineering, etc. Even if not true today, the bright colors add to the beauty of the landscape.
A local came out to greet us in the harbor.
Here you can see the difference in color of the glacial or polar ice (blue) and the normal winter ice which is white.
The white ice sheet in the background is the north polar ice cap.
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