Thursday 26
June
A long day
of travelling came to an end when we arrived at the lush and green airport of
Kangerlussuaq. Kangerlussuaq means the big and long fiord in Greenlandic. The
fiord is some 170 kilometers so the coastline is quite far away, making the
area around Kangerlussuaq sheltered and warm.
Fram was
picturesquely waiting for us down by the fiord 17 kilometers away from the
airport. The PolarCirkle boats which we will be using for coming ashore for
most of our journey took us on a 5 minute drive to Fram. The boats go pretty
fast, but are really sturdy so we will be looking forward to go ashore in them
to the days coming.
After
having check-in at the ship reception we did the mandatory drill though it was
late and most of us had been travelling nearly all day. Safety goes before
anything!
So finally
at 00.20 we could all bunk up go to bed and be rested for the journey ahead of
us.