Iceland Cruise Day 14

Isafjordur, Iceland

Posted by Brian Hart on August 15, 2024 · 3 mins read

We arrived at 8am to chilly temperatures and pouring rain. The town itself doesn’t offer much unless you’re embarking from here on a tour. It has a similar working town vibe to Qaqortoq.

The blue-hulled Celebrity Eclipse docked at Ísafjörður beside a grassy field, dwarfed by a steep green mountain whose top is shrouded in low gray cloud, with a wisp of exhaust rising from the ship's funnel under an overcast sky

View along the rocky shoreline of the Ísafjörður fjord with a tanker truck and colorful low houses of the town at the base of a steep green mountain capped by a rolling bank of low cloud, gray fjord water stretching to distant headlands under a heavy overcast sky

The rain (mostly) stopped by midmorning, so Sher and I left the kids onboard to walk through the town and back, stopping at the tourist information booth on the pier to leech their wifi. We even spotted a Cybertruck:

A weathered metal snowmobile trailer stenciled 'ski-doo' parked on wet gravel beside a white industrial building at the foot of a steep mossy mountain in Ísafjörður, with a black SUV and other vehicles nearby and puddles from recent rain

I’m at the tail end of being sick and starting to get my bounce back, just in time to end the cruise. Unfortunately, Sherri feels like she’s starting to come down with it. We still have 5 more days before our long flight, so I’m very much hoping everyone is in decent shape by then.

Isafjordur reminds me of photos I’ve seen of the Scottish Highlands.

My view as I work on my journal: A laptop open on the cruise ship's wooden deck in the foreground, with an orange Celebrity Eclipse life ring mounted on the railing and a towering green-and-gray fjord mountainside rising across the calm water under low cloud

Sailaway was beautiful.

Sailaway view from the ship looking back at the town of Ísafjörður spread along the far shore of the fjord at the base of a broad flat-topped mountain draped in low cloud, with an orange-and-white tender boat numbered 8 stowed at the ship's side in the foreground

This was our escort:

A small red-hulled pilot boat with a yellow wheelhouse escorting the cruise ship out of the fjord, crossing calm dark green water beneath a steep striped green-and-gray mountainside whose summit disappears into low gray cloud