Good night

The picture was taken at 22.30 tonight ... It will not be dark at night now ... Daylight 24 hours a day ... We have a little trouble sleeping :-)

With Saturday

My friend Mario from Portugal wrote there were 30 ° C in the shade where he lived ... So hot, isn't it here in Kuummiut, approx. 8 ° C in the shade today ... But at the sunny side of the house are great to stay ... Here my wife and our daughter are sitting and enjoy the good weather ...

Enclosed...

Again a lovely warm sunny day ... Calm almost all day .. It feels like being in prison here in the house ...The fjord wisper to me come,come.. But I am still sick, and I have to be inside the house ...

Afternoon ...

Snow evaporates now... They are no water from melting snow, the snow just disappears into the air ... At the port is now placed a lockout .. It consists of a very strong rope which is stretched at the entrance to the port ... It prevents icebergs in to enter the port ...

Morning

Calm ... In the horizon I can now see the pack ice ... In a few days, perhaps Ammassalik Fjord is filled with pack ice...

Bye to the sledge

The snow is melting fast now ... There is daylight 24 hours a day ... The plants are growing, it will soon be summer ... We have traveled with our little sledge the whole winter ... Now the sledge will be put away and wheelbarrows should be out running again...

Greenlandic Music

As I have written before, there are released very much Kalaallisut/Greenlandic music. Most publications are "young" music ... A young nation on the road ... Here are some links to music and music videos ... The music is published by Atlantic Music ...

Pele Møller Band:

http://www.atlanticstudio.dk/am_folder/clips/tacd02/tacd02.html

Stinne Jacobsen:

http://www.atlanticstudio.dk/am_folder/clips/askn10/askn10.html

Sonnet:

http://www.atlanticstudio.dk/am_folder/clips/ascd64/ascd64.html

Links to various music videos from Greenland:

http://www.atlanticstudio.dk/am_folder/video/Appiguk.html

Lyrics to Ajajajaa

Ajajajaa

They lived
In peace
For hundreds of years
Ajajajaa

They respected their song deeply.
Later it lived among them in silence,
As the heartbeat of life
Ajajajaa

Alas, their song was silenced by the eastern beliefs
Put out of by a strong wind of change.
The beauty it gave
Its people
Ended.
Their spirit suffocated.
Ajajajaa

It was forgotten for many years,
The people grew weak
Full of despair
Ajajajaa

Longing for their lost identity
They waited for the return of their song.
Wishing to gain strength from it once more
Ajajajaa

It came like a wind from the great mountains
Ending the time of darkness.
Restoring the old song
Returning the heartbeat of the people
Who once again grew strong
Ajajajaa

Now their spirit is set on a journey.
Destined to travel forever.
Ajajajaa

Lyrics/Melody: Rasmus Lyberth

Buy? Atlantic Music. Link in the side bar

Ajajajaa

Greenlandic singer Rasmus Lyberth

Return to Innocence - Enigma

Kuummiut...free from stress, cars ...simpel living....Make me think of Enigma "Return to innocence"
Maybe a litle to simple: No water in the tap...The waterpump is broken :-)

Catch a cold...

I have catch a cold and sore throat, so I have not put images into the blog ... But here is a picture from today ... cloudy and windy ...

Spring

School was over at noon... Hurry home and eat... Then a little nap ... Coffee and ice on the terrace ... So we went out to the boat ... We sailed further into Ammassalik Fjord .. . We fished and had a really good afternoon...

Still ice cream in the grocery store....
Best friends....Ulla and Ida....Ida now speaks proper East Greenlandic.....Reflections in Ammassalik Fjord....


Tasiilaq Inlet.....

Ida Fishing....

Barbecue on the terrace

Ready to start....
Sausages on the barbecue.....

Ida waiting.....

Finally finished............

The view from the terrace.....

Flood, painting and barbecue

I have had a busy week both at work and with your computer ... Downloaded a new browser .. The computer does not like it and there have been problems until yesterday. Too many programs did not work good enough .. Now the widows is loaded again, and everything works fine....

Tonight we grilled on the terrace ... It has been very nice weather today....
My daughter and I started to paint our rental house ... Great what paint can do ...

The first days of this week it rained and rained... Thursday night broke the ice in the river valley and we had flooding the middle of the village ... Many more pictures tomorrow .. :-)

Snow and rain

Snow and rain and still huge amounts of snow on the ground ... It is the school janitor who shovels snow ... The picture was taken at the door for teachers to the school entrance ...

Sunny day in May 2005 ... The picture is from Tasiilaq (Ammassalik) ... In May, June, usually we go to Tasiilaq to buy goods in the shop

We generally use to sail to Ikateq in May. A former U.S. Air Base ... It is very special to go around in these environments ...
IDA has suddenly become very tired :-) Photo May 2005

It's fun to play in the old military trucks at the base ....

Trout usually come out in the fjord in late May ... Here we trout fishing near Qinga ..

Sunshine

Sunny Kuummiut....Photo from Friday....

Today it snowed and we spent most of the day indoors ... I've baked bread so we have enough for the next week ... There was also time for baking a cake ... Our pepper plant has small, fine fruit now ..

We only have fresh fruit and vegetables in the time we get the ship from Denmark ... From the beginning of July to mid-October ...

Holiday :-)

We had a day off from school today ... Nice to be able to relax in the morning ... In the afternoon I sailed out on the fjord ... A wonderful weather ... calm ... and an incredibly beautiful Ammassalik Fjord...

I sailed into the inlet side to look for seals on the winter ice .. They usually suns them selves on the ice in the sunshine....I met Andreas who was in search of seals ... We saw a seal, but was disturbed by helicopter ... rich tourists helliskiing ...
Andreas is a nice old sealer ... Now he serves no money, because of some sick people's attitude to seal hunting ... Yes poverty is spreading in our village ...

Time for a cup of coffee ...

Ikaasaq as a mirror in the spring sunshine....

Mikkel was lucky he shot a seal ... the seal is on the sledge

The capelins

We fish capelins by Qinga ... These photos are from May 2004 ... At that time I had a Ryds speed boat...

Fish are playing on the low water ... The yellow eggs on the bottom....
Ready to start fishing...

Then there are fish in the net....

Here is one of the three bags filled with fish, we fished this morning....

Afterwards we drank coffee on the beach ....

Sail away Sail away

They are beautiful, large, dangerous and incredibly beautiful to look at ....

Sout east of Kuummiut

Orinoco Flow - Enya *NICE QUALITY*

When I saw the large icebergs sail past, I came to think of Enya and "Sail Away"
Carl

Ammassalik Fjord when it is most beautiful

It is often calm in May
Haukur towards Qinga....

The lovely Ammassalik Fjord one day in May.....

Kuummiut by the fjord......

Ammassalik Fjord ... View south east....

Today's Iceberg

Near Idaali...

The capelins are here

We sailed all day on the fjord ... IDA has caught many capelins on this little fishing rod ... Every year in May-June months the fish swim in huge numbers to Ammassalik Fjord ... Here they put their eggs in the low water near the coast ... The Greenlandic word: "Ammassat" means capelin ... The Fjord and city has been named "Ammassalik" because of the small fish ...

The fish swim in the shallow water and put their eggs ... The white areas on the bottom are fish eggs...
Fish and eegs...

IDA has caught a capelin ...

Great to fish in the beautiful surroundings.....

Mom caught a funny fish...Good for soupe....