Greenlandic summers, or hiking in the freezing rain!

Not many photos today, as it was so cold and rainy that I didn’t want to stop and take my gloves off. Hiked from the front of the icefjord, along for about 2 hours and it was bitter.

I had all my wet weather gear on so was dry, but the icy rain is a bit hard on the face. And with lots of water running over them the rocks are very slippery. It’s just like in the Blue Mountains, you see people who come out to walk with no clue, carrying umbrellas, not wearing water proof gear, and I bet no food. I’m sure they get lots of issues with cold injured walkers here, even in summer.

For some reason the rain and cold has really set the dogs off, they are just constantly and loudly howling. Maybe they are excited as winter is coming and they will get let off the chain!

The ice was still beautiful, the sea much rougher, so lots of little bits churning around.

Everyone was in the hostel in the afternoon due to the rain, so very busy. There are some cool people here, a Dutch couple who are artists and have been filming and photographing the area as part of an art project where they are shipping a piece of iceberg back to Holland and it will be auctioned off; a few individual travellers from German, Costa Rica and Denmark, a group of retired Danish people, and two Swiss sisters who have the wildest long grey hair and hike for miles with huge packs.

The different gear people hike in is a hoot, the German guy, who has just been on a really big hard hike, gets around in grey thermals with knee length corduroy hiking pants over the top. He looks like a nerd, but you can tell from his massive calves that he could hike for days in those cord pants!! Funny no Americans, Brits or Canadian’s here, or Aussies, so I’m a bit of an anomaly.