THURSDAY 20TH - UMMANNAQ

A very unusual day in that we spent the day at anchor. We arrived at the town of Ummannaq at about breakfast time and departed late in the afternoon.

Ummannaq is a town of approximately 1500 people and, but for the fact that they have 24 hour darkness and are iced in in winter and their buildings are perched on a rocky hillside, it's a pretty normal sort of town.

It is alleged to be the sunniest town in Greenland and we certainly saw it at its 1 degree sunny best.

We spent the morning having a tour of the town and spending some free time wandering around it. The exciting news was we had a dry landing, the first one we had had since getting on the ship, which meant that we could wear our normal shoes rather than our mud boots which we have had to wear on every other occasion when we got off the ship.

 

 

This afternoon we had the option of a hike over rough terrain or a zodiac tour among the icebergs so we chose the latter.

Yes this is an iceberg, not an island.