Nuuk again, then south.

 



                                                 Near Cape Desolation. Bob photo





We went up the fjords inland of Nuuk for a few days. Heavy ice limited us to the nearest fjord 30 miles inland - the ice came from 3 glaciers 50-80 miles beyond. A lot of cod - our fishing is done in 30 seconds. We walked up a large stream which was positively hopping with trout - watched them jumping the falls. My pic




   The commercial part of Nuuk Harbour. The ship on the left is a cruise ship from Nassau, the Bahamas. A lot of them here - a new one every day. The one on the right is a commercial crate carrier out of Bremen. The one in the middle, a small icebreaker with two cranes, serves communities isolated by ice in the far north, such as Qanaq, Upernavik, Ittoqqortoomiit. My pic





                                   Reading. Preferably by the stove. Peat briquettes burning. My pic



   Nuuk has a fantastic museum , the National Museum, on the peoples that lived in Greenland. It shows five waves of peoples that came to Greenland. The Eskimo came from Canada about 1100 - 1200 AD. They found two peoples already here: The Norse/Icelanders who came here 1000 AD and who disappeared 1450 AD. And the Dorsets who came to Greenland before Christ, and who disappeared around the time the Norse and Inuit came. No one knows what happened to the Norse or the Dorsets. Before the Dorsets was an earlier wave of people who came to Greenland around 2000 BC, the Saqqaq. The fifth wave are the Danes who colonized/controlled Greenland for the last four centuries and who now give the Inuit nation autonomy with a great deal of support. Today's population is 10% Danish, 90% Inuit. I find this 'history' neat in that it shows the pattern of humanity - wave after wave of migration, in endless succession through the ages. The Museum is mainly fascinating material on the traditional Inuit. 

   Still getting over the bug - I've had it 10 days - nearly done now. Rory caught it as well, and is almost over it. We are resting a lot. Tomorrow we start going south. 

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  1. Victoria Foote-BlackmanAugust 7, 2023 at 7:22 AM

    Nick, so amazing to read about and see parts of your journey. Beautiful photos, outside and inside Teddy. Sorry you all have been ill. I looked up Nuuk; it seems to be on the same latitude as Iceland but can't tell for sure. What do you do for veggies and fruits?

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