Got back from my second trip to Thule, Greenland. The trip was wet or cold, not and cold. When it was raining, the temperature was bearable in the upper 40's. When the clouds cleared off it dropped into the mid 30's with a cutting wind. Anyway. I'm glad to be back and will not need to go back until next spring...
Here is are a couple of links if you want to know about Thule:
This is a plateau that dominates the area. It's name is
Dundas and is the landmark that you reference everything to. One trip I am going to climb it, but not this time. Apparently there is a stone golf course on top.
Another Picture of
Dundas showing its "table top."
This view is from a cliff that overlooks the ice bay where three glaciers meet Baffin Bay. Apparently this is the only place in the world where three separate glaciers meet. I'm not really sure how that's possible.
The icebergs are fairly light in the late summer. I hear they are much heavier as the ice is breaking up in the ice bay. Will look forward to seeing that next year.
One of the many glacial creeks formed form melt water from the ice cap. the whitish blue stuff under the rocks on that cliff is the actual Polar Ice Cap. As the ice moves down the valley it shovels stones up like a plow.
This is one of the Arctic Foxes that we saw everywhere. You are warned not to approach them as most have rabies, but that does not stop them from coming up to you. This one hung around the work site and watched us. They turn this ugly brown for the summer, but their fur will change to white by the time winter sets in.
There are also Arctic Hares everywhere. This is a lone one. There were literally hundreds of these hares scatter all over the tundra. I'll have to get a better camera with a good optical zoom my next trip.
Sleeping Hard.
Ally dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood at School this morning.
