Waking up this moring we found our selves surrounded by high
mountains, but due to references no one could imagine that these were more than
2000 meters high, some even close to 3000 meters. This is of course Alpefjord
in Staunings Alper. The area is a mecca to climbers, there is also several
unclimbed peaks for those interested in trying to conquer the wonders of
geology. The aim for this morning was to get everyone into the tender-boats for
a 30 min cruising along the glacier in the bottom of the fjord. It is actually
two glaciers, the Gully gletcher and Sefstrøms gletcher draing parts og the
Staunings alps. It was very impressive to sit in the small boats listening to
the sparkeling glacier ice and have a look MV Fram in this enormous fjord.
During lunch we cruised out of the fjord only to be met with
the impressive geology in Segelselskapets fjord, consisting of more than 500 my
old colourfull marine sediments.
In the afternoon we dropped anchor at Mestersvig, Nyhavn.
This is and old mining town from the 1950s’ and 60’, where one of our guides
used to live as a small kid with the world largest nationalpark as his
playground. Today Nyhavn is used by the yearly supply-ship to the Royal Danish
Naval Guard and the Mestersvig airfield built in 1952. The station is manned by
two men all year round, normally “retired” men from the Sirius patrol or
Station Nord. Visits are rare, as we are the second and largest cruise-ship of
the season.
Today we offered a kayak tour and a hiking trip to the
airfield and the surrounding mountains and some good old stories from our
“home-sick” guide ;0)
This is also our last stop as we leave the Nationalpark of
NE-Greenland heading for the civilization in Scoresbysund…
