Day 10

Day 7 On board (Monday)

6.30am wake up call....as we are having an early breakfast.

Off to the Mud room by 8.30am to have a big stretch on Fredericksdal with trying to find Musk ox (sheep)

Saw them up in the distance but the only group that got up close and personal were the strenuous group. They got really close.

It was a glorious morning with little breeze and gorgeous sunshine.

Everyone took a few layers off as it was getting a bit warm, although on the way back down to the beach it all started going back on!! we were introduced to some native blueberries.....yummy!

Back to the ship for Lunch at 11.30 . we had the most amazing sights for Lunch....fantastically large Ice bergs.....incredible. Imagine that only 10% of it is above water , what would it be like underneath????

This afternoon we have another walk. Evan is going on a 5 hour walk up the side of a mountain Martin Karlsen Bugt, Nordvestfjord and will be picking them up on the other side. I was going to do it but you have to be fast and I am worried I would slow them down...so I am going with Terri and Greg in the Moderate group..

Evan here after making the grade. Some stats We reached a maximum of 640 metres covered about 12km. No one has ever walked this area before to anyone’s knowledge not even our guides they were going off satellite and contour maps only. So no marked tracks just very rocky, icy hot and cold weather. We were a group of 22 surrounded by 3 guides with rifles plenty of Muskoxs to see who kill more people in Greenland than Polar Bears hence the rifles. Saw two Muskoxs head butting each other for their next seasons mating rites. It took us awhile to manoeuvre around the Muskoxs they kept going in the same direction as us. We were trying to push them down the mountain but they kept going higher. We decided to head back down the mountain and cross over an icy stream and approach from another direction. Finally cleared the Muskoxs and headed up to our peak of 640m. The top of the pass reminded me of the Pilbara area apart from the icy filled stream and ice on top of the mountains. Once we were on the flats came across a large lake that didn’t show on the maps and a smaller one starting to ice over. When we reached the other side of the pass came across a magnificent view of all the icebergs in the Fjord with the Greenland icecap in the background which can't be seen by the Ship. When our ship finally came around the corner it looked like a small bath toy next to the icebergs. When we finally descended the zodiac had just arrived so it was a dry boarding and back to the ship for a shower and a few beers. Certainly one of my highlights so far.