Greenland - Scoresby Sound - Part 2
During our Arctica trip with Oceanwide Expeditions and their expedition ship, the Aleksey Marishev, we first went to Spitsbergen, next we crossed the Atlantic Ocean and finally we went to Greenland and made a cruise in the Scoresby Sound..
The top of the bill in Greenland was our cruising of the Scoresby Sund (also called Scoresby Inlet).
Amazingly beautiful.
One year before i was in Antarctica, but this area was as beautiful as Antarctica, although totally different.
So much nature and so few people (only a bunch of local indians).
The Scoresby sound was fascinatingly beautiful, with icebergs, tens and tens of glaciers with the lower portion of the ice almost arriving in the salt sea water.
And as top of the bill we saw the last night 'the northern light' - a laser show all over the sky for almost 30 minutes ! Unfortunately my camera was not good enough to take a picture from it.
What an extraordinary experience!!
We stayed for 3 days in the Scoresby inlet. It is so deep with so many arms that one could be in the sound for more than a week without seeing the same things.
Very negative point on this ecologic adventure is the hunting drive of the inuit people. They shoot on everything what moves. Result : if an animal sees a human being he is braking olympic records to get away.
Younger inuit people are seeing the benefits of ecologic tourism and try to change the habbit (in earlier times they need the hunting for food, but these days they have food enough trough other sources).
This cruise is only possible for 4 to 8 weeks a year (from August to September if weather permits). The rest of the year this area is frozen.
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Link to part 4
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