Day 9

Day 6 onboard Sunday

Woke up to the ship not rolling....

Breakfast at 7am this morning as we needed to be on the Zodiacs by 8.30am. Beach landing and then split into our groups. We were in Moderate. Lots of patches or snow/ice.....so exciting felt like a little kid!!

Headed off with our guide in front of is and one at the back, both with rifles and flair guns.

Some very fertile tundra here. Basically it was a jungle....by Greenland standards anyway. We stepped through some very deep drifts almost up to our knees. I managed to get Terri to walk across one and down she went!! we got told off by one older gentlemen for having too much frivolity!! I'm sure he was joking.

At one point during our trek we split again into two groups.....Evan and I went in the faster group.

I was following everyone's footprints in the deep drift when I got stuck...so had to crawl along for a few steps until I could get out...( silently embarrassed and also for the person behind me having to put up with my bum!!)

We were all sweaty even though the wind was quite chilly. I wish I had a tap on my nose. It just wouldn’t stop dripping.

We were ashore for approx 2 hours. We saw Arctic fox and Musk ox tracks in the snow...just no sightings of the animals.

Back to the landing site, life jackets on and boarded the Zodiacs then onto the ship for a nice hot shower. Lunch at 12.30pm, buffet style.

We are going ashore this afternoon to Ittoqqoortoormiit. The school children are going to show us around their school, plus they are going to go aboard our ship for afternoon tea....we might have some left for us when we return. Lol

We walked around and saw the church, old peoples home, the cemetery , what a view from there. Terri and I had a snowball fight on the road....was bloody cold when it got into your top!! but so much fun. Walked down to see the dogs being fed. The guy that owns them is form the UK and had a dream to what he is doing …..he has 22 dogs and they are gorgeous. We weren’t allowed to pat them as they are working dogs and if one had of bitten anyone it would have to be put down.

Walked up to the Tourist Office...bought some gorgeous postcards and they are being posted On Monday....went down to the Zodiac site and back to the ship for afternoon tea. Looking back towards the village it had a Swedish look about it, very colourful too. Apparently the locals found a polar bear feeding on a beluga whale around in the next bay, so crew were disparately trying to get everyone on-board so we could make our way there. We got there and went outside. After spending 15 min looking in the wrong spot I finally saw the blob up on some rocks.....the locals had scared it off so it was no longer on the shore!!! It wasn’t until the man next too me showed me his picture I knew where too look!! Evan's picture when zoomed in you can see his nose and eyes. He was sleeping off his big feed.

Was exciting but we are all hoping to see one walking and not so far away!!

The northern lights were out in force last night. I didn’t rouse but Evan did and took yet some more shots...