I
appreciate that I skipped yesterday but it was a transit day in that
we got off the ship at Kangerlussuaq Fjord, went on a post cruise
excursion, got dropped off at the Kangerlussuaq Airport and flew to
Ottawa where we will remain until 6:00am tomorrow when we fly to Mexico.
Unfortunately
it is a miserable drizzly day in Ottawa so, although we have explored
some of the nearby city, it is not a great day for walking.
Yesterday
was interesting in that we saw two glaciers, the Rossiter glacier and
the Reindeer glacier but they were completely different to the
extremely productive glaciers we had seen in recent days.
Unfortunately our glaciologist Colin wasn't with us so we couldn't
get an explanation as to what was going on.
Far
from producing large icebergs, these glaciers finished a long way
from the ocean and produced only a modest stream of melt water coming
from their bases.
The
airport was interesting. It was built as an American Air Force base
in 1941 but the Americans ceased using it in the 1980's. It is now
the only airport (and large bit of flat ground) in Greenland capable of accommodating large
commercial jets so it is a transit point where people flying to
Greenland come there and then disperse to smaller airstrips in
smaller aircraft. The town of Kangerlussuaq exists for no other
purpose other than to service the airport.
Travelling
day again tomorrow in that we take three flights to get from here to
Leon in Mexico where we link up with Therese and Mario on Thursday
morning.
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