Travelling south along the coast

                                                              Deep up a fjord













                                               Moving inland









                                             Biggest cod taken this yea\r, 28"







                                                             At Qeqertarsuatsiaat






  Like so many villages, Qeqertarsuatsiaat is experiencing severe depopulation. Migration to the cities. 






             Qeqertarsuatsiaat, pop 80, has these guns for sale at the supermarket. Guns are a way of life. 






                                 A hunter keeps his antlered caribou skulls






                                                Caribou skin with head & hooves







We brought meat from an Eskimo hunter. L to R: caribou steak, muskox heart, muskox bone & vertebrae. Good stew. 





  Fish market at Nuuk. It sold minke whale meat (shown), minke blubber, minke skin, harbour porpoise parts, Arctic char, and seal carcases. Carnivory is a way of life in this land. Bob's photo. 




                                                Wrecked fishing boat at Paamiut





                                         Rory's cuppa joe. Like an oversized Turkish coffee




                                            Skipper's cup. Biggest on the boat. Monogrammed






                                                           Whimsical berg






Day's end. At 61 degrees north we are quite far south, and we now see the stars at night. We expect to see the Northern Lights any night now. 

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