tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21363087503081911502023-11-17T05:33:13.834+11:00A solo sea kayak expedition in East Greenland's Ammassalik regionGeoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-74421619527241616142013-10-21T07:52:00.002+11:002014-01-11T14:33:00.245+11:00Equipment summaryThis trip involved taking quite a lot of gear with me to Greenland, both for my safety and also my comfort. Following is a brief comment on how some of the equipment performed.<br />
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Firstly, it should be mentioned that this trip would have been impossible without the help of Martin Rickard, of seakayakadventures. <a href="http://www.seakayakadventures.webeden.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.seakayakadventures.webeden.co.uk/</a> <br />
Martin had enough faith in me to hire me a kayak for a solo trip, something most people would not do due to the risk, and he also provided the spraydeck, pfd, spare paddle and shotgun.All good gear that performed as needed. <br />
Martin runs 2 to 3 trips every summer in the Ammassalik region and I would urge any mildly adventurous paddler to give one a go, they are awesome!<br />
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My main sponsor is Mont Adventure Equipment of Australia. I am what is called a Mont Ambassador and as a result I get to try out the best gear available. Mont produce outstanding gear with innovative and thoughtful design and incredible useability. Apart from the Mont clothing, which all performed admirably, I took a Mont Spindrift sleeping bag and a Mont Epoch 4 season tent. The sleeping bag was great, warm, snuggly and light. Sleeping bags have come a long way over the last few years and this is one of the best.<br />
My Mont Icicle down jacket was a bit like a sleeping bag with arms, very warm and comfortable to wear.<br />
The Mont Lightspeed Jacket and Latitude pants are the best expedition/travel clothing around. Cut really nicely so they look good anywhere, they are still very functional and getting wet or cold from the wind wasn't an issue at all.<br />
The tent, a 6 pole structure, is spacious, <b>very </b>stable and well ventilated. It is quiet in a wind and suitable for mountain and expedition use. I also used a Mont Fuego carry on bag for the flights to Greenland and it was excellent.<br />
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Once again I used Smitten thermal merino underwear on this trip. Light, warm and almost impossible to get it smelling! Good stuff.<br />
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I was supplied with an InReach Iridium satellite messenger by the manufacturers, Delorme. This was just brilliant. It works so well and easily, it's like using a mobile phone to text but without the signal limitations. The ability to send and receive was invaluable. It enabled me to easily keep in touch with my wife and receive weather forecasts. Highly recommended.<br />
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My stove was a Primus Omnifuel, a virtual powerhouse of heat but still very controllable. It's other huge advantage is the ability to burn various liquid fuels AND gas. Good for remote travelling. I used a QuietStove cap with it which is very worthwhile.<br />
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For a mattress, nothing beats an Exped Downmat. I took a full length Downmat 9 and the comfort is ridiculous :-)<br />
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I was trying out a new headlamp, a Petzl Nao and the light output on full power is tremendous. It is still very controllable and can be set to provide very long running times if required. Its ability to be charged via USB was a boon.<br />
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For charging I used a Brunton 26W solar panel along with a Brunton Sustain battery and a Hahnel Unipal II battery charger. The battery charger was brilliant, it charges all types and shapes of lithium batteries as well as AA/AAA's. The complete battery charger!<br />
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The ration packs supplied by Outdoors Grub was about as good as this sort of food can get. Certainly heaps of energy and I never went hungry.<br />
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On the kayaking side, my Kokotat Drysuit did the job without problem. I used Chota Mukluks and I really think that these are perfect for cold water paddling.I also used NRS neoprene paddling mitts which didn't keep my hands dry but they did keep them warm.<br />
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I took 2 GPS's with me, a Garmin 62s and a Garmin Montana. The 62 was for backup. The Montana is a good, if rather bulky gps and was easy for older eyes to read although I do feel the 62s is still easier to read in sunlight.<br />
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I took my own paddle, a Werner Cyprus 210 crank shaft. An absolute delight to use.<br />
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For photography, I took a GoPro Hero 2 camera, a Panasonic FT3 waterproof camera and a Nikon D7000 DSLR. All performed well and enabled me to put together a reasonable set of images from the trip.<br />
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The Paqua waterproof cases did what they were supposed to, and Axel Schoever's mapcase was the perfect expedition map case.<br />
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So, all in all, everything worked very well indeed. Nothing on the trip failed or felt redundant. Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-8885651336559197352013-10-21T05:02:00.001+11:002013-11-17T17:20:39.500+11:00WalesI had 4 great days in Iceland. It was very relaxing wandering about and soaking up the atmosphere of this amazing country. Finally I boarded an Icelandair plane bound for Heathrow. I was really looking forward to this part of the trip, having thoroughly enjoyed myself on my last visit to Wales last year. I learnt a great deal about sea kayaking in a very short period of time from John Willacy , my coach and sat for my British Canoe Union 4* Leader award and passed so it was all good! This time I intended to begin training toward gaining my 5* level and John was to be my coach again this year. His style of teaching and directness suit me down to the ground. I drove from London overnight up to Holyhead, on the Welsh island of Anglesey and sorted out my accomodation, and went round to visit a good mate of mine that was supplying my kayak for my stay, Mike Webb of Rockpool Kayaks. Over the next 5 days I received about 34 hours of valuable coaching from John, another 7 hours navigation training from Ollie Sanders and caught up with lots of friends and made quite a few new ones. It couldn't have been better :-) Plus I got to paddle at the famous Penrhyn Mawr tiderace as well as some other challenging water in various locations. The time passed all too quickly and it wasn't long before i was driving to Manchester to catch a flight headed south.... What an Adventure! <br />
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I enjoyed a couple of lazy days in Reykjavik, walking around exploring the city then I hired a mid sized 4 wheel drive and went for a short drive into central Iceland on the notorious 'f' roads. Iceland is an amazing country with stunning scenery, beautiful people and a rich and interesting heritage. A great place to visit. </div>
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I had planned on crossing the day before but the airport had been closed due to the imminent arrival of a Neqajaq, a cold NE wind that can often arrive with storm force, bringing rain and snow and generally nasty weather. The forecast on this occasion was for 40 knots gusting to 60. Pretty strong. As the weather system approach Tasiilaq I witnessed a fall in pressure that was unbelievably fast. At one stage the pressure dropped 6hpa in 17 minutes!<br />
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I spent the morning wandering around Kulusuk Island killing time until my flight in the afternoon. It was clear that winter was on the way with far more snow on the hills than when I had arrived a couple of weeks earlier and a definite nip in the air.<br />
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Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-63564236519724495412013-10-18T07:37:00.003+11:002014-01-25T22:00:24.960+11:00Video<div style="text-align: center;">
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I have put together a video recording the trip. It mostly contains images already loaded onto this blog but with a bit of music the end result isn't too bad. I hope you enjoy it :-)<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/84948298" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe>Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-10046662031966134742013-10-17T00:06:00.002+11:002013-10-21T00:58:49.352+11:00TasiilaqThe trip to Tasiilaq on the Johanna Kristina was interesting. I spent the time talking to the caretaker of the Tasiilaq museum, Carl Eric, so I learnt quite a bit about the history of the region as well as the current politics :-)<br />
Amazingly, halfway to Tasiilaq, on a Greenland freighter in Greenland, I heard on a Danish radio station that Tony Abbott had become the new Australian prime minister. The ever shrinking world.<br />
Once the kayak and I had been deposited on the wharf at Tasiilaq I had the task of getting all of my gear up to an accomodation place called "The Red House". I had to assure my wife it wasn't what it sounded :-) In fact, it was an excellent accomodation establishment run by expeditioner Robert Peroni. Robert had made multiple crossings of the Greenland Ice Cap and had in fact been onto the cap a total of 13 times so he knew his way about. But, his establishment was nearly 1 and a half kilometres away up many a hill. So, I gradually ferried my gear up to the Red House. It took 3 trips. Then I dragged the kayak up the hill from the wharf on a trolley to be stored for the night in one of the museums buildings, "the potato house".The next day I moved the kayak back around to Martin's container where it would be stored with his other boats for the winter. That was a 1 and a half kilometre slog up steep hills pulling a sea kayak. I was glad to get there :-) <br />
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One of the great things about travelling in out of the way places like Greenland is the interesting people you run into doing amazing things without fanfare. I met a French couple at the Red House that had been paddling the Greenland coast for the last FIVE years! Alain and Nathalie Antognelli are exploring, documenting and filming their way along the Greenland coast with an indeterminate timetable. They showed our small group of people staying at the accomodation 2 videos they are working on. One showing the hunting of polar bears in NW Greenland and the second the hunting of Narwhal from a traditional Inuit skin on frame kayak. Both videos were superbly filmed and very, very interesting. These were filmed at a tiny settlement of 30 people with no other human habitation within 300 kms. True subsistence living, the hunting of the animals was totally justifiable, ecologically sustainable and part of life in the Arctic.<br />
Their website can be viewed at <a href="http://www.phototeam-nature.com/teamGB.htm" target="_blank">http://www.phototeam-nature.com/teamGB.htm</a> <br />
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<br />Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-55630394344560932782013-10-16T23:45:00.000+11:002013-10-16T23:45:06.593+11:00Return to base.The Johanna Kristina was scheduled to return to Kuummiut in a couple of days so I packed up the next morning and left Tasiilaq Fjord so I could catch the JK to Tasiilaq. It was an uneventful paddle and so by the early afternoon I had the tent back up at Kuummiut, settling back in to familiar surroundings.<br />
In all of the time I was in Greenland, apart from the people on the French yacht and a couple I met in Tasiilaq, I saw no other people exploring the landscape, it was really past the end of the tourist season. <br />
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<br />Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-26664511184677260612013-10-16T23:30:00.002+11:002013-10-16T23:46:54.407+11:00A wander in magic landAfter exploring the beauty of Tasiilaq Fjord I returned to where I saw the huts on my way in. All the time I had in the back of my mind the story that Lars the boatman had told me as we crossed from Kulusuk Island to Ammassalik Island. He told me how two weeks before there had been a French party camped in this same fjord. One of the girls in the party heard a noise late at night. At first she thought her airbed had sprung a leak as she heard a quiet "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh". Unfortunately the whooshing noise walked past her tent....it was the breathing of a polar bear she was hearing. Unzipping the tent, she started screaming. <br />
Lars comment was, "she did everything wrong...it will be very bad for tourism when something happens."<br />
So, after landing near the huts and carefully unpacking the shotgun first, I took a walk to check the huts out. The first two, small single room huts were very dilapidated and smelly. The third, a good 200 metres away up on a hill, was much more acceptable. I started carrying my gear up to the hut. It had a fantastic view, sitting on a spur running between two fjords, Qingertivaq Fjord and Tasiilaq Fjord.<br />
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<br />Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-59218925167311940052013-10-16T22:46:00.002+11:002013-10-16T23:47:48.890+11:00"This has to be the most beautiful place I have ever been to"That's what I thought to myself as I paddled around the corner into Tasiilaq Fjord, "the most beautiful place I have ever visited".<br />
Just stunning.<br />
I had left Kuummiut that morning, heading north up the Ammassalik Fjord. My friend in Kuummiut had recommended this fjord to me, saying there were also some huts in the fjord. Ever since I had seen his website, <a href="http://www.kuummiut.com/" target="_blank">www.kuummiut.com</a> , I had wanted to visit it, and I wasn't disappointed.<br />
I had a headwind most of the way up to the fjord but as I neared the entrance the wind dropped right out and the water became glassy smooth. I passed 4 huts before the entrance and even had a whale blowing in the distance. <br />
There was another commercial hut inside the fjord but this one was locked, something I find unusually unfriendly in a landscape such as this where shelter can be the difference between life and death.<br />
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<br />Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-57221106491121346232013-10-16T22:45:00.001+11:002013-10-16T22:55:01.274+11:00The Lights....After my wander in the hills I returned to my tent and cooked up a storm. Well ok, it was a freeze dried meal but reasonable plus a nice dessert. The daily ration packs from Outdoors Grub are very acceptable indeed.<br />
Later in the evening I decided to take a wander down to the wharf with my camera and tripod. No particular reason, just thought I would as it was a perfectly clear sky. Anyway, I ended up down at the wharf at about 9pm, not long after sunset. While I was standing there looking at that beautiful clear sky I noticed a greenish band of light stretching across the western half of the sky. Seriously hoping it was the beginning of a light show, I got my camera ready. I had brought a little Gorillapod tripod with me. It only stood 30cms or so high but at least it held the camera still for long exposures.<br />
The light show began and I got to work capturing images. It really was very special with curtains, beams, and glows happening in all directions. At one stage I had a beautiful shimmering red and green curtain directly above me. All I could do was stare and say " that's awesome". No time for the camera with that one unfortunately.<br />
Two hours later, the show faded and I went back to my tent a very happy traveller. I felt privileged to have seen such a wonderful show. Fabulous.<br />
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Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-9926355242635388972013-10-15T21:09:00.003+11:002013-10-15T21:09:51.495+11:00A hiccupI slept well in the hut that night, waking to a grey, rather cold and windy day. It wasn't a day for paddling so I relaxed in the hut, enjoying the magic landscape surrounding me.<br />
In the afternoon, I decided to go for a walk. Now because of the risk of bears I carried the shotgun pretty well wherever I went. The gun carried best upside down.<br />
So I gathered together what I needed, Gun, spare slugs, binoculars, camera and lenses and a bite to eat. I hadn't gone very far when I came to a smoothly sloping dry slab of rock. I stepped onto it and whoops! I slipped and fell over. Even at 58 years I still bounce pretty well when I fall and I was soon upright again. However, this time it appeared I had done a little more damage than usual.<br />
When I fell the sighting rib of the shotgun squashed my left index finger between the rock and the gun. It simply popped the flesh out of the finger. I was very impressed when I looked at it but thought that it might be wise to take some strong pain killers straight away before the pain kicked in.<br />
Back at the hut I was still impressed so I took some photos before bandaging it up. In the end, it simply went numb and never really hurt. But I realised that I should go back to Kuummiut to get it looked at by a medical person.<br />
I have posted a pic here small size, your choice if you want to see it bigger, just click on it :-)<br />
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Because of the tidal times, it wasn't going to be possible to head back to Kuummiut first thing in the morning, the tide wouldn't be high enough until mid afternoon so I thought I would go for a paddle up the Ikateq Fjord to do some exploring while I waited. It was a beautiful calm morning with the sun starting to break through. First I paddled the 2 kilometres across to the far side of the fjord and then started heading north. After a while, I saw a pod of 30 or 40 seals a few hundred metres away, many heads sticking up out of the water. A little further on, I spotted a black rounded/rectangular shape in the water about 40 or 50 metres away. I couldn't make out what it was but when I saw it moving towards me, leaving a gentle wake I decided there was a possibility that it could be a nose attached to 4 rather large legs! I exited stage right at a fair rate until I felt that the danger had passed. Continuing north I met a French yacht moored off the abandoned army base at Ikateq. Some of the passengers and the skipper had landed and I had a brief chat with them. The skipper casually mentioned that there had been 3 bears near the Blue Hut 2 weeks previously. I paddled a little further north amongst some beautiful icebergs then turned south again to return to the hut to pack up. </div>
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I arrived in Kuummiut mid afternoon, searched out the local nurse and had the finger disinfected and bandaged up. </div>
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The Blue Hut is situated at the confluence of 3 fjords and commands an impressive view of its surroundings. To get to it I intended paddling through the stunning Torsukattak Fjord, a very shallow tidal fjord that can only be traversed at high tide, even in a kayak. </div>
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I left Kuummiut the next morning and headed north under perfect blue skies. When I reached the shallow stretch it was still a long way from being navigable so I collected some water and put a few #3 cartridges through the 12 gauge shotgun, just to get the feel of it. It was surprisingly accurate. Then I slipped one of the solid slugs in. KABOOM!!! What a difference, both in kick and noise. Very impressive. </div>
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Once the water had risen enough to continue I relaunched the kayak and continued on to the Blue Hut. The forecast for the next day was for very heavy weather so I knew the Hut would be home for a couple of days.<br />
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A steady stream of icebergs drifted past, adding to the overall impressiveness of the location.<br />
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Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-7270006291183797992013-10-15T17:29:00.000+11:002013-10-21T03:02:46.047+11:00KuummiutThe little settlement of Kuummiut is a great place. I really enjoyed being there last year and enjoyed it just as much this time. The settlement is very small, just 329 people, with lovely warm, smiling people living there. Even though virtually no one speaks English they always had a smile and a "hello" for me.<br />
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I used Kuummiut as my base for exploration and when I found out that the freighter would be back in a week I decided to use it to get back to Tassilaq.<br />
On arriving in Greenland a couple of things made me alter my plans. Firstly, the weather was definitely on the downhill slide and one of my concerns was getting back in to Kong Oscar Havn to return to Tasiilaq. A lone paddler travelling on 3 degree water needs to travel fairly conservatively, hence my decision to travel the last leg by freighter.<br />
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The second influence was the number of sightings of polar bears in the area over the previous month. There had been reports of 8 individual bears in various parts of the Ammassalik region and even though everyone I spoke to said "the ice has gone, the bears will be gone too" I had my doubts. As it turned out, there was one left behind....... So I decided that I would use huts where I could.<br />
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On arrival at Kulusuk I met Martin Rickard in the airport. Martin was hiring the kayak, shotgun and other gear to me and he told me where to pick up the key to the container in the township of Tasiilaq and said my transport to Ammassalik Island shouldn't be too long. I organised a lift for my gear and myself on a four wheeler down to the wharf a half kilometre away. It was cool, breezy and dry with a frosting of snow on the mountain tops. It felt great to be back in this awesome landscape. An hour later 2 boats arrived, one smaller one that transferred me to the larger vessel standing a little offshore. Lars, the owner of Travellodge Greenland, was to take me to Tasiilaq on Ammassalik Island almost 30 kms away. Lars said it was very rough outside Kong Oscar Havn where Tasiilaq was situated, in fact so rough that his two Inuit boatmen had refused to do any more crossings. When I asked him just how rough the answer was 4.5 to 6metres..... Fortunately, by the time we had reached the roughest part the sea had settled a bit with only 3 metre waves.</div>
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On arrival in Tasiilaq I called into the Royal Arctic Line office to arrange transport the next day of the kayak and myself to the settlement of Kuummiut 50 kilometres north. No eftpos facilities, the office closed in an hour and I didn't have any cash.......I raced up to the nearest shop that had a Teller machine..the machine was broken. Kept on going to the Pilersuisoq (supermarket). Got the money and rushed into the office just before they closed. Phew!</div>
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Packing everything into the kayak, I slid the now very heavy kayak out to the edge of the crashing waves and contemplated just how I was going to launch. There were a lot of unavoidable rocks at the water's edge and I knew it wasn't going to be easy. Oh well, nothing ventured..... I slid into the cockpit, fitted the spraydeck and tried to get the kayak to slide forward into the waves. It was a real struggle to get the boat free of the rocks it was sitting on without getting broached by the waves. I was thinking to myself I am going to give this one go only, otherwise I would set camp up again and wait for better weather. Anyway, eventually I forced my way free of the rocks and bounced into the waves. Bearing in mind the water temperature in these very choppy waters was only about 3 degrees C I carefully paddled the 1/2 km to a beach near the wharf where the settlement freight Johanna Kristina lay. Lo and behold, the group that had just left to go to Kulusuk by boat turned up. It was too rough outside the bay to travel safely so they had turned around. They helped me carry the kayak to the waiting freighter then left to organise a flight to Kulusuk by helicopter.</div>
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The only trouble was, I now had a very heavy kayak sitting on a wharf probably 500m from the nearest beach :-)<br />
I looked up a friend in Kuummiut, a Danish teacher called Carl and he suggested I organise a front end loader to carry the kayak around to the beach (there are no cars or trucks in Kuummiut, just 4 wheelers and front end loaders).<br />
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Finally, the time had come. It was a pleasant 10 degrees as I stepped onto a plane in Hobart to start the <u>very</u> long trip to Greenland.<br />
The first leg was from Hobart to Melbourne, a mere hop, skip and jump compared to the long haul flights that were to follow.<br />
A few hours in Melbourne then I boarded an Etihad Airways plane for the flight to Abu Dhabi. Now, most travellers that have travelled internationally are aware that the excitement of flying on long haul flights lasts about one hour into the very first flight. Then it becomes a case of "are we there yet?" Fortunately, Etihad is one of the best airlines available, even in Economy class, and they do their utmost to make the flight as pleasurable as possible. Nevertheless, it was a relief to step out of the plane 14 hours later into the slightly warmer clime of Abu Dhabi. 39 degrees!!<br />
The message came through that my next flight from Abu Dhabi to Heathrow had been delayed by 1 and a half hours......<br />
This was of some concern to me as I only had 3 hours to get from Terminal 1 in Heathrow to Terminal 4 to organise my flight to Iceland. This included collecting my baggage and making the not inconsiderable trip between terminals. My 3 hours had just been reduced to one and a half hours......<br />
So, I quickly fired off a couple of emails, one to my accomodation in Reykjavik, Iceland and another to Chris Frizelle of Outdoors Grub who I had organised to meet at Heathrow with my food for the trip, just to warn them that things may not go to plan.<br />
Once I had landed in Heathrow I rang Icelandair to let them know I was on the ground and would get there as soon as I could. <br />
I gathered my baggage as quickly as I could then raced down to a taxi rank. £20 pounds later, I was deposited outside Terminal 4. It didn't take long to find the Icelandair Check In desk and Chris. The airline had kept someone back to meet me and issue a boarding pass. I thanked Chris for his superb service, collected my bag of food and boarded the Icelandair flight to Reykjavik.<br />
I boarded the plane 20 minutes before take-off. 3 hours later I was in Keflavik, Iceland. It had taken almost 41 hours of travelling to get here!. A one hour bus trip into Reykjavik and I walked into the Downtown Hostel in Reykjavik at 1am in the morning, a little tired but glad to have arrived. <br />
Surprisingly, I was awake 6 hours later feeling pretty fresh. I walked into the heart of Reykjavik (more a town than a city) and found my way to Ellingsen's Outdoor shop where I was to buy the high powered solid slugs for the shotgun I would have in Greenland. I had previously obtained permission from the Iceland Police Force to purchase the ammunition, supplying Passport and Firearms License details to them.<br />
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On the 29th August I moved my ever growing mountain of gear out to Reykjavik Domestic Airport for the flight with Air Iceland to Kulusuk, Greenland. By this time I had a large carry on pack, a backpack, a cargo bag, another cargo bag, a paddle bag, and a camera bag with 2 lens pouches. About 57 kgs altogether!<br />
It's a relatively short flight to Greenland, just 2 hours and 740 kms so in no time at all I was looking down on the colourful but tiny settlement of Kulusuk with anticipation and excitement. It was a great feeling being back in Greenland.<br />
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Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-66691961903166825502013-09-25T08:41:00.004+10:002013-09-25T08:41:54.635+10:00I am back home in Australia now after a great adventure in Greenland. I didn't spend as much time as I had planned on the water due to various factors but it was still an excellent adventure with many highlights. More stories and pictures to follow!Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-13632926178121531582013-08-24T21:35:00.002+10:002013-08-24T21:35:30.345+10:00Does that all fit in there!!??Well, tonight I did a trial pack in my own kayak, a Rockpool GT which is very similar in volume to the Rockpool Menai I will be using in Greenland.<br />
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<br />Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-28268408468600021972013-08-24T08:09:00.001+10:002013-08-24T08:09:23.892+10:00Not long now....In 5 days I will set foot on Greenlandic soil again :-)<br />
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The weather hasn't been too bad lately, although I am getting the impression that the weather was exceptionally good last year when I visited. Definitely more rain this year.<br />
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Everything is organised so all I need is favourable winds and it'll be a trip of a lifetime. Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-75244330007364920522013-08-20T11:03:00.001+10:002013-08-20T11:03:25.339+10:00InReach SE Satellite MessengerI have received and set up my InReach SE satellite messenger unit. A very innovative piece of gear which brings 2 way satellite communication within reach of just about everyone.<br />
Once I start my trip on the 29th of August you will be able to follow my progress from this page<br />
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<a href="http://www.ryda.com.au/" target="_blank">RYDA</a> are supplying me with a Garmin Montana 650T. Ryda is a great company, they have very competitively priced gear with full Australian warranties. Better than going the eBay way!<br />
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Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-20950514569149264342013-08-12T16:48:00.001+10:002013-08-12T16:49:10.091+10:00KayakweatherI have just organised with Karel Vissel of Kayakweather.com to supply me with forecasts via satphone during the expedition. Karel supplied my forecasts when I paddled across Bass Strait with a group of Tasmanian Sea Canoe Club paddlers 2 years ago and his forecasts were superb.<br />
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Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-82316087774169402782013-08-03T05:52:00.002+10:002013-08-03T05:52:53.270+10:00Hmmm...I have just heard that a bear was shot the day before yesterday in Isertoq, that's a mere 64 kms WSW of Tasiilaq. They are still about.<br />
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I will be in Tasiilaq in 3 weeks time....Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12507054206147031188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136308750308191150.post-77175702643880556002013-07-17T22:01:00.000+10:002013-07-17T22:01:01.282+10:00Google MapsGoodness, Google Maps is improving all the time. I just took a wander around my destination online tonight and the detail and information is astounding.<br />
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The bear is on the far side of Kong Oscar Havn. That puts it around 2 kms from the township, not very far at all!<br />
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It is a beautiful animal, obviously well fed. All the same, I do hope it has moved on before I arrive :-)<br />
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