Saturday PM

I'm glad I was able to capture some satellite signal this morning, the further toward

Greenland we go, the more fickle it seems to be. Sometimes I can get logged in only to find the e mail or blog site won't come up and by the time it becomes obvious that "It aint gonna happen" I've used up more minutes.

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We're into fog again with rain, winds and the high only 14c, there's a moderate swell and in all a typical North Atlantic experience. We expect this for the next few days which will make our call tomorrow in, Southern Greenland, "interesting"! I stood at the rail gazing at the fog for a while, the wind messed up my hair do, shucks and it's formal again tonight. :)

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There's plenty going on around the ship but after lunch I came down to the cabin for some quiet time, read my book (just started my fifth) had a nap and will try to stay awake for the Officers Black & White Ball which doesn't start till 2230h, way past my bed time.

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Nanortalik means "Land of the Polar bears" in the Inuit language, the bears arrive on ice floes but great care is taken to keep them from visiting. The port (although we'll be tendering) was first established in 1797 as a whaling and sealing station.

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We are hoping for two reasons that the weather will brighten, #1 it's very scenic we're told and the fjords sheer walls, spectacular. At the upper end of the 45 mile inlet, the Tasermiut glacier is said to be an impressive sight.

#2, in clear weather the Northern lights are visible but are at their best between late August and April. Perhaps we'll get lucky but what ever, it'll mean another pin on our world map.

1730h. 15 minutes till early seating, we're all spiffed up so me and Mrs. Toe are just about ready to go. There'll be one more formal before we leave the ship, probably next Thursday.

Dinner was great again, Dorothy had beef tenderloin, I had the surf n turf. Some had Icelandic cod, it was good too. Dorothy had raspberry sundae but I forget what I had! :)

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The fog rolled in and out at dinner and the ship became quite wobbly, the wobbliest it's been for the whole cruise. Walking back to our cabin, everyone had a sailors gait, it will be interesting to see what happens at the black and white ball, Dorothy has taken off her heels and I don't blame her. The show room is at the prow or pointy end, it will be very wobbly there, wobbly plus bubbly should make for an interesting evening, I think I'll take the camera.

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Last night we put the clocks back an hour and we do the same again tonight, Toe is a happy man.

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Sunday August 15th. Nanortalik Greenland.

We ended up missing last nights shindig. Dorothy was too tired, as was I, we were rocked to sleep by the motion of the ocean and when we awoke it was still very foggy. It was cold and windy until about 45 minutes before our arrival, then it suddenly cleared and was sunny all day. The Inuit again were very friendly and happy to sea the ship come in, it helps their economy and they were ready with signs all over making us welcome.

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The first tender left at just after 1015h. It was about a 15 minute ride to the harbor and the local kids were all at the pier side welcoming us to their little town. The captain mentioned that we'd been dodging icebergs all night and there was one huge one and a number of smaller ones not too far from where we dropped anchor.

We spent a couple of hours wandering around town saying hello and explaining where we were from, this was the best weather they'd had in the last three weeks so we lucked out again. After that we tendered back to the ship and enjoyed the seafood buffet lunch they'd prepared on Lido out by the pool. There were crabs legs, oysters, scallops, shrimp and a whole lot of other foods, we were spoiled for choice and it was really good.

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The anchor was weighed at 1700h and we're headed for Newfoundland, less than 15 minutes after we moved out we were in thick fog again, the people in the suites will no doubt hear the fog horn throughout the night. I will not bore you with dinner details other than to say it was great.

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No show for Toe, I'm going to have another lazy evening, reading and hopefully getting the blog sent, we can't see the glacier due to the fog and I suspect there'll be no Northern Lights display either, it's all rather eerie out there, I love it……...