Northern sea - Page 4

Ammasslik - Welcome Greenland !!!

It was unclear for a long time whether we would be able to anchor with all the icebergs blocking the bay. But then we still went to the Greenlandic settlement of Ammasslik (Tussaliq) and tendered into the village. Beautifully situated, but very dirty. 2500 inhabitants has the largest settlement on the East Coast. The children play here at about 10 degrees in short clothes on the trampoline. The kindergarten is fenced in, because here in the winter often a few polar bears look in. Otherwise, our tourist column moved in a pack through the village and stood well-behaved at each house, where a sign hung on it 🙂 I can not imagine where to go here, but for the remote and small place there is here proper car traffic, including horn concerts as in southern climes.

In any case, it was very interesting to see how the people live here, it is mainly Inuit, sporadically also Danes. We were warned about the sled dogs, they are not lapdogs here, but working animals. But everything over 6 months old had to be leashed, so no danger. Most of the time they lay near the house on the meadow or the rock. The weather here changed quickly, we had partly bright sun, on the way out but then again endless fog banks. Therefore, there was little to see outside, and we listened to Kiesewetter's lecture about whales. There were whales to see now almost every day, we didn't even run when the announcement came. Later, in Illulisat I found it necessary to photograph a few of the giants. The sightings at sea were too far away for my old camera.

Prins Christian Sund

Since the early morning hours we are crossing the Prins Christian Sund, an impressive landscape. Actually, Cape Farvel was planned, but the captain decided, due to the good weather situation, that we cruise the Prins Christian Sund today and not on the way back. It is still hard to make enjoying Paul the fantastic landscape. Therefore, there is now and then foosball in between 🙂.

A Danish weather station and an Inuit settlement was to be seen here, already crassly, how humans survive here ... Yes, otherwise pictures would have to speak here again, is actually the landscape and the animal world, which makes everything here. Even fin whales, the second largest whales, were seen. Between the enormous rock walls was in some places a view to the inland ice possible, from which some light blue glaciers reached down to the fjord.