THURSDAY

Howdy,

At around 1300h after two days of fog fog fog, out of the mist loomed a land mass, a welcome sight for many. We passed a few small icebergs then the town of Qaqortoq with it's paint pot colored houses became clearer. No fog now but rain rain rain giving the town an eerie feeling as the low clouds came and went. After lunch we tendered in wearing our weather proof coats with the hoods up. The Floridians and Californians among us were feeling the cold, those of us from Canada felt quite at home though it was more like our November than July.

The cost of living is astronomical here and most of the Inuit are living off the Danish government welfare program.

It was very dreary as we wandered around and so after an hour we checked out the gift shop there were sealskin products whalebone carvings and various touristy trinkets with Qaqortoq or Greenland stamped, painted or printed on them, we purchased a fridge magnet and joined the queque to tender back to the Maasdam. It was good to see Qaqortoq, but I wouldn't want to live there.

A hot shower, fresh clothes and a latte soon had us feeling in fine fettle, I loaded the photos into the lappy, by then it was time for dinner…..

Dorothy has gone to see the show, I'm having some quiet time doing this.

I have found a spot with full bars from the satellite so I'll have a go at sending this, then I shall curl up with my book.