This photo was taken from the plane.  The coast of Greenland where we kayaked contains many spectacular fjords and islands, and half a dozen small Inuit villages.  The wind and tides can move the ice at a couple of miles per hour. Thus a fjord can be almost solid drift ice one day and then be almost ice free the next.  I could not help but think that this is what Puget Sound looked like 10,000 years ago as the last ice age ended and the glaciers retreated from my neighborhood, leaving room-sized glacial erratics as their calling cards.

  Some of the ice you see here originated locally from the tidewater glaciers we visited.  But much of this ice was carried south by the Greenland Current from glaciers further north and from the disintegrating polar ice pack.  There is always the chance that a drifting iceberg will deliver a polar bear to your camp, or that you'll get trapped in a mass of drift ice and be carried out to sea by the ebbing tide or a wind shift.  Such interesting possibilities distinguish paddling here from, say, the Bahamas.