Finally sunshine...

Finally, sunshine again .... A high pressure above the ice sheet provides us with nice weather .... After many days of gray weather, snow and wind. It's like waking up to a newborn world with strong light .. .. Joy of life is increasing, the temperature falls and the days get longer... optimism spreads ... It is a lovely time approaching....

Low tide...Just a small floe of ice...My boat is on the floe......
The "road" to the factory......
Kuummiut in January sunshine.......

A break from blogging .....

I'm back on the blog after a few days' break ... I made a break from the computer, which was about to take all my spare time ... It has snowed and blown most days in January ... There is not as much snow as last year, but there are still come a lot of snow ..

Municipal workers have dug a staircase in the snow ... so it's easier to get to the houses ... the stairs are quickly destroyed when residents dragging cans of oil up to the houses ...
Here is Jan's house in October ....

And the same house on 29 January with a lot more snow ....

Yamarin on Ice ...

My boat came up on the ice today ... The boat has remained firmly in the ice since December, and it seems that there is not so much ice on the fjord this year ... My plan is to put the boat into the water again , in the near future ... The boat is manufactured by the Finnish yard Yamarin ... And it has a Yamaha engine with 100 hp ...

Back in Kuummiut

We are bound for heliport .... mom comes home from Tasiilaq ... We have now come to the football pitch .. Our football club is called K 64

At the heliport ... An elderly man is on the sledge ... He will travel by helicopter to hospital in Tasiilaq ... This sledge is our ambulance in Kuummiut...

Ida and mother are happy ... Mom has just come out of the helicopter ... Perhaps there are gifts??

Next to the football field is a typical Greenlandic house ... in front of the house: an old sled and a four-wheel bike and some sled dogs.....

The little house, our prison ... It is quite lonely situated on the outskirts of Kuummiut ....

A January day......

The area near Kuummiut .. Viewed from the air one January day in 2006 ....

Mountains around the inner part of Ammassalik Fjord......


The area near Kuummiut had only thin ice cover......

Kuummiut ... In magnificent surroundings....

Tasiilaq/Ammassalik/Angmagsalik

The town with many names...The official name now is Tasiilaq....
And today my wife flew to Tasiilaq, only one week later than planed....All in Greenland depends on the weather.....
This is a picture from June....The town is one of the most beautiful in Greenland...

Low pressure...and a smile....

The view from Kuummiut against Denmark Strait ... A typical weather picture for the months December and January ... Low pressure after the low pressure moves from the South (Newfoundland) up through the Denmark Strait. Low pressures bring a lot of wind and snow with them ... During February the weather tends to be stabilizing ... We have high pressure, it's cold and plenty of sunshine ... I look forward to this time ..
My wife still smiling..... Before we heard the helicopter was canceled....She still waits for a chance to come to Tasiilaq, and maybe reach the plane on Wedensday from Kulusuk to Nuuk......In Greenland we must learn to be patient ... No one knows what tomorrow brings.....

Polarbear

Photo: ©Ewald Mathiassen

An inhabitant of Kuummiut, Ewald Mathiassen took the picture about 500 km north of Kuummiut near the large fjord, Kangerlussuaq ... In summer hunters sometimes sail from Kuummiut up to the great fjord to hunt Narewhales ... Ewald saw this bear swim in the fjord, and had a nice picture ... Very close to the bear ... The bear was'nt shot ... At this time bears are protected ... We have a large population of polar bears here on the East Greenland. If you are interested in following the polar bear migration, follow this link: You must have installed Google Earth on your computer .... http://www.seaice.dk/Polarbears/2007/PolarBears2007-30days.kmz

Sun Gate

Today I got this photo ... One of the inhabitants of Kuummiut: Berthel Sikivat1 took this beautiful picture somewhere north of Kuummiut, in Ammassalik Fjord ... The place is called Solporten / Sun Gate.... At the midsummer sun shows itself right in the middle of the U valley ... The picture is taken with a cell phone ... Thanks Berthel

©Berthel Sikivat1

Canceled ...

In the "departure hall".......
Landing

Landed in Kuummiut........

Today my wife have to go to Tasiilaq by helicopter ... Yesterday it was canceled ... The helicopter came to Kuummiut....AND STAYED HERE.... In Tasiilaq it had been blizzard and it was too dangerous to fly ... Now the helicopter is parked on our small heliport, and the pilots are now accommodated here in Kuummiut ....Maybe tomorrow??? The Dash 7 flyes from Kulusuk tomorrow afternoon...... will she mis the plane in Kulusuk???

Sun Wind and Winter

The day came with the sun and wind, like weather reports had promised .... It was cold -12C/10.3F ... the helicopter did not come today, it was busy flying passengers between Kulusuk and Tasiilaq .... We hope for better luck tomorrow ... My wife would like to get to Nuuk where she should be on course ... No helicopter....No course....

The snow is blowing on the mountains......
Winter View....

The sun have'nt reached the settlement yet......

A door in the school.....Playwood on the windows to protect the glas from the coming snowmasses....

The door is leading to......WINTER WONDER LAND..........

Snowy days

It has snowed for two days .. but there are not so much snow as at the same time last winter .... it is considering freezing every day, and we hope that the Fjord will soon be covered with ice, so ice fishing is to begin ... The weather forcast says sunshine tomorrow hope that it will be true ... My wife has got a ticket to the helicopter tomorrow but the helicopter has been canceled ... But maybe it will succeed to fly on Friday ...

This photo is taken this morning on our veranda....
Kuummiut in snow.......

Vittus and Johanna infron of the containers...The belong to the school...Snowheight is higher than the containers....

Working nine to five

Bell 212 Helicopter......
It has been a busy day today ... Meeting after teaching. There was no time to take pictures today ... It was dark when I went to school, and dark when I went home ... It is Tuesday today, but there were no helicopter from Tasiilaq ... The helicopter was damaged ....
We have had snow all day, maybe 5o centmeter snow ....
I choose to show you a picture of the helicopter which operates the route Tasiilaq Kuummiut ... The picture was taken in Kulusuk last summer ...

Towards Bright Times

My wife infront of our house.....Enjoying the sunshine...Photo from last winter

English Lesson

Ida by the lap top....She has an english lesson at home .....Using a CD rom called: " Pixline goes to London".....

My Weather station

I have got a weather station in the Christmas gift ... A "Lacrosse WS 3600" .. Base Station hangs on the wall in the dining room .. It works fine ... But the base station can't communicate with my computer .... I have downloaded a program called Weather Display ... So I can get a weather report for Kuummiut ... But it'll takes a long time before it comes to my Blog and "Weater Underground" There are no experts here who can help me ....
In this photo you can see the computer display... In the lower right corner you can see a bright green square ... "Data quality ok" ... The computer receives data ... But there is a lack of light in the square over the green ... There is nothing shown in the chart above...The data is not from my weather Station... Maybe someone can help me??

On a Gray Day....

Weather reports had promised good weather, instead it was overcasted with snow .... This morning we heard a helicopter suddenly coming... It is not usual helicopter are coming on Sundays. The helicopter came to retrieve a person, who was seriously ill because of meningitis The patient was flown to hospital for treatment in Tasiilaq ...
Saturday we heard that night between Friday and Saturday there had been 3 polar bears visiting Kuummiut..A femalebear with two cubs ... There were clear traces of them in our dump... Boas, my friend just called me, He told that there are maybe 2 or 3 walruses in Ammassalik Fjord..... this is not normal ....
Viuw towards the fish factory.....

"Ice cubes" north west of Kuummiut......

The ice is getting thicker and thicker....

My boat in the Bay.....Frozen....

The harbour is nearly covered with ice.....

Wish I was there

This photo is from yesterday...... It was overcasted throughout the day...With snow from time to time, but for an hour I could see the sun shining up on the mountain....

Ida's Birthday Party

Thomasine...Josefine...and the birthday cake

Ida at the end of the table......

Right side: Lydia and Kezia....Left side: Ulla.......

Josefine and Ulla....