Sunday, June 28, 2009

On vacation ... Kummiut-Tasiilaq

Ida is waiting for the helicopter to fly us from Kuummiut to Tasiilaq.... We travel to Denmark on holiday every year in summer...

To dispel the waiting time we look for flowers ... The flowers are small but incredibly beautiful
The helicopter landing in Kuummiut ... It is a Bell 212...


View from the helicopter ... Ammassalik Fjord below us...




There is not much space in the helicopter..........




Friday, June 26, 2009

In Denmark

We are in Denmark on summer hollyday...

Ammassalik Fjord seen from hellicopter the 22th of June...
Our hellicopter in Kuummiut....
More pics tomorrow


Friday, June 19, 2009

Games day at school...

The students were divided in teams ... There were 10 entries ... Here a team is visiting my post ... The children will catch "fish" with "fishing rod"...

The children are waiting .. "When is it my turn"...

It requires concentration.....

Karline and Thomasine in a good mood.....
Come on!!!



A wheelbarrows can be used for many things ... Here as a taxi for a lady who has broken her leg...




Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Walk with Ida Marie

By the fjord.....
By the river ...

On the driftwood...

Summer flowers....


Finally two beautiful flowers....





Monday, June 15, 2009

Iceage :-)

Ice Castle....
Nearby....
Peaks....



A bridge and a woman....



Thursday, June 11, 2009

Giants ... Dried fish and laundry

Still very busy days ... I haven't time to sail in my boat this week .... But now I'm writing again ...


The big icebergs are starting to get into Ammassalik Fjord .. They come from the north and will be sent with the flow south of Greenland .. Some of these icebergs find their way into our fjord ... Huge and many of them have very beautiful colors and shapes ...

In the background you can see one of the very large icebergs.....
In those days blowing a cold southerly wind into the fjord ... The land around Kuummiut is warmed by the sun, now shining 22 hours a day .. The air rises ... It leads to the cold air from Denmark Strait to be sucked into the inlet ... Right now it is good for fish and laundry :-)
See the clothes cords



Sunday, June 7, 2009

Ammassalik Fjord

When my boat was back in the water after I had filled new oil on the engine, I sailed a small trip on the fjord ... In the background the mountains called The Triplets ...
In the background the small river where we usually fish trout ...

This week, every day, one of my photos were shown on TV KNR, Greenland's official television channel ...The picture was shown before the sending of advertising or if there was a pause in the broadcasts


New oil in the outboard engine

It has been busy this week, so there was no time to write on the blog ... I have worked with business plans for next school year ... It's always hectic days when we approach the summer vacation ...

The engine on my boat is now running for 100 hours and it is now to change the engine and gearbox oils ... I went down to the port Friday afternoon at low tide ... To see whether there was space on the ramp ... at the ramp was a boat, but it will probably be removed by high tide at 10 in the evening ... Then it's my turn to use the ramp....

On the way home ... I saw the dogs enjoying the sun beside the river

The little house reflected in the low water....


When I came down the ramp in the evening there was already two speedboats which should have changed the oil in the engines ... Too late again ... Instead I was up at 3 in the night and got my boat up the ramp ... Now the engine can running 100 hours before changing the oil ...




Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Sermitsiaq - Her er dit nye Landsting

Sermitsiaq - Her er dit nye Landsting

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Scorpions - Wind of Change

Today there are elections to the Greenland parliament ...
I hope the wind is blowing the same way as in the Scorpions' Wind of change "

Floes

The floes are now pressed further and further towards the shore ... The southern wind helps ... It seems pretty cool because of the humidity ... I hope the wind will soon come from a different direction ...
The speed boat is really squeezed by the ice
Viewed from another direction
Stranded floes...



Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Best Bergs in Blog

My best photos of icebergs in May ...
May was a fine month in terms of weather ... Calm weather and very sunny ... We got caught capelins and we had many fine days on our terrace ... In May month, I had finished a lot of repairs in my small rental house.. It was a shame that the paint ran out before the house was painted finish Around Kuummiut it is always possible to find a place, where it is not blowing ... Here is an iceberg with blue a stripe...
Here an iceberg reflecting in Ammassalik Fjord's clear water ... I call it is the ice flower ...

Sail away....


As a lying mushroom....



The world is beautiful :-)



Monday, June 1, 2009

View of the port....

The ice scattered at the entrance to the port and blocking the entrance .. But fishermen and hunters are experts in finding a passage, between the floes, so the boats can get in and out ...

Wind and pack ice from the south

The ice is now close outside the port ... The rope ensures that the ice does not come into the port...



Ice has many different shapes


The boats are an unsafe place ... The Floes can overturn the boats...


Some of the floes are quite large

The mist comes and goes.....






New windows ... and ... Fog

My little house I use for rent have new windows today ... I had ordered glass to the windows in Denmark .. Slides came with an air cargo last Thursday ... It was not possible to obtain glass here on the East Greenland ... It was a pleasure to put in the new low-energy glazing ..There are no more red paint to buy in our small shop ... Paint work must wait until I can get paint from Tasiilaq / Angmassalik or Denmark

At night the fog came rolling in Ammassalik Fjord....

The sun is shining yet ... But after a few minutes the fog covering the sun

This is the first day with fog in this year ... The settlement is located 60 km inside the fjord, so it's not often we have problems with fog....