Greenland - Qaqortoq

Qaqortoq is a town on Greenland's west coast close to the southern tip. The population is around 3000.

Our planned schedule had our ship visiting two Greenland towns: Nanortalik and Qaqortoq. Sadly we had to skip Nanortalik yesterday. It is located on the eastern coast near the amazing channel/sound we traveled through.  The ocean waves were too rough for our ship's tenders to transfer our passenger form the ship to the shore.  Bummer! A side note: the tenders are really our lifeboats. It's nice to know they work. 

Above left shows a very long staircase down to the street of the grocery store.

Above right are the only flowers we saw. Marigolds in full bloom.

Denny is standing next to the only fountain in Greenland.

This picture is from the Internet and shows Qaqortoq better than any of our pictures..

A fisherman was cleaning his net so I helped him. My hands continued to carry the aroma of seaweed after several hand washings. The fisherman was a kind old fellow and could not speak a bit of English. Once the chore was finished, he handed me a 1 inch by 2 inch rectangle of fur. I thanked him with great delight in Danish, "Tak!"  Another passenger informed me it was seal fur. Probably from an animal he had hunted himself.

The kayak Show put on by the town is a group of young teens rolling their kayaks underwater. This is the same crazy cold water we see icebergs in off in the distance. The last half of the video shows both young men rolling over.

Link to video: https://youtu.be/yBwkT8xzNAw