{"id":11113,"date":"2018-09-15T04:52:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T04:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11113"},"modified":"2018-09-26T15:07:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T15:07:25","slug":"friday-14th-september-2018-well-what-a-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11113","title":{"rendered":"Friday 14th September 2018 – WELL, WHAT A NIGHT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

*************** THE IMAGES ***************<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are over 3,000 of them and due to the deficiencies of the equipment they all need a greater or lesser amount of post-work. And so you won’t get to see them for a while.<\/p>\n

You’ll need to wait til I return home and get into my studio and start to go through them. And it will be a long wait. But I’ll keep you informed after I return.
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I was off on my travels yet again, and on a couple of occasions too. Up in the High Arctic with a couple of my fellow-passengers. And I wish that I could recall what was going on in there because it was certainly exciting and also very important. I remember thinking that I need to be able to recall this when I awake<\/p>\n

But fat chance of that!<\/p>\n

Up on the deck there were a few icebergs floating around. Flat top and sheer sides, just as they had calved off from the glacier. The ones with more extravagant shapes have been at sea for quite a while and have had the time to erode, either by sun, rain or wave action.<\/p>\n

And while I was admiring everything, I suddenly realised that I had yet to take my medication. So I went back down to do it. <\/p>\n

Back up here, I was just in time to see the light as the sun came up behind the mainland of Greenland. Nothing special unfortunately – we can thank the low cloud for that. <\/p>\n

My bad night had caught up with me yet again. We had two lectures this morning – one of the Power of Observation which was really nothing more than an egocentric (of which there are more than enough on this trip) photo exhibition, followed by a talk on tectonic plate theory and the Movement of Continents. And I fell off to sleep on a couple of occasions.<\/p>\n

But by now we had entered the Tasiussaq Fjord. This is our destination for today. Our rather timid captain managed to find his way in up to a certain point, despite how narrow it was, and we all enjoyed the manoeuvring. <\/p>\n

I went for my lunch and ended up chatting to three people whom I didn’t know. And they didn’t stick around very long either. I have this affect on people, don’t I? <\/p>\n

They ran out of zodiacs to take us ashore. There was an extreme hiking party out and also a kayaking group. That latter sounded exciting but it’s been 50 years since I was last in a kayak and that was on a canal. Sea-kayaking at my time of life with my (lack of) recent experience is maybe not the way forward. <\/p>\n

We had to wait until the first load came back and meantime, I fell asleep. And I could feel myself rising out of my body and floating upwards, and it’s been years since I’ve last had an out-of-body experience.<\/p>\n

However we were soon off and into a really impressive fjord. It’s been a long time since I’ve ever seen anything so beautiful. <\/p>\n

On shore, we had a little climb up to the raised beach, and then it was something of a hike across the isthmus to the other side of the headland.<\/p>\n

Over there, there was a Thule village of sod houses – some from about 600 or 700 years ago, one reasonably modern-ish Inuit sod-house and a couple of indeterminate age in-between. <\/p>\n

The archaeologist with our party delighted us all by recounting a lovely little story about how she went on an exploration of a village of sod huts, going from one to another to examine them, and walked into one to find that it was still occupied! And the occupant offered her a mug of tea. <\/p>\n

There were several caches for keeping meat – one cache for each kind of meat apparently including moose, and we also discovered what might have been some kayak stands or may even have been umiak stands. <\/p>\n

Inuit and Thule houses, and even Dorset houses depend upon flat land and a sea view. And this sea view here couldn’t be better. There was even a little beach at the foot of it, but not the kind of place where you would be in your bikini or your cozzy.<\/p>\n

There was an alternative way back, around on the far side of the lake so Strawberry Moose<\/a> and I came back that way.<\/p>\n

I’d forgotten to say that he was with me, and indeed he had had some really good photo opportunities. At least he had a good time.<\/p>\n

And so did I. I bet that it was the first time that Everyone Is Everybody Else has ever been played in Tasiussaq Fjord. And the timing was perfection itself.<\/p>\n

We managed the trip back to the ship without encountering a storm today, and I came up to my room to have a shower and a clothes-washing session. And at the de-briefing, I fell asleep yet again. <\/p>\n

It’s been a long day.<\/p>\n

For the evening meal I was once more at the Naughty Table and we all disgraced ourselves thoroughly, much to the chagrin of a woman who had come along quite by accident. And here I am, not fit to be seen out without a keeper and even I can’t keep up with the rest of them.<\/p>\n

We have a very early start tomorrow so the little music concert that we had with Sherman Downey didn’t last too long, and Strawberry Moose<\/a> was unlucky in that he didn’t get a dance. Mind you, no-one else did. it was one of those evenings. <\/p>\n

Back down to the cabin to put His Nibs away, only to find that for some reason or another I’d managed to lose my room key. I was also ambushed by our Entertainments Manager about my ETA for when we cross back over into Canada, whenever that might be. It’s lucky that Rhys printed out a copy for me last year. I was able to brandish that.<\/p>\n

A few days ago, Ashley, one of the Inuit girls on board, told us all an Inuit legend about a woman who could change herself into a fox in order to taunt her lover. Of course, Liege And Lief, and in particular, Crazy Man Michael<\/a>\"\" sprung immediately to mind so I invited her to listen to it. And she enjoyed it tremendously.<\/p>\n

Now, I have work to do in order to catch up with stuff that’s dragging. And I’m in a rush because it needs to be done fairly quickly for, as I said just now, we have a very early start tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I’ll have to get a wiggle on.<\/p>\n

And in other news, I’ve now gone well over the 1,000 photos for this voyage. I did that the other day and forgot to mention it.<\/p>\n

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