A selection of photos from a stormy Greenland’s National Day (2007) in Uummannaq. You can see the clouds curling over the glaciers!
Jane was working at the hospital that day. One of the porters took her home on a break as the clothesline had “helicoptered” out of its holder (a length of pipe ingeniously – if I say so myself- screwed into the deck). Yes, the clothes missed the fish, but neighbours – and the porter who was driving past at the time – said it flew higher than the roof. 😉
And a shot of Jane’s workplace (yellow hospital) when the sun broke through the clouds. Yep, I just might have posted this one before. 🙂
The storm shoved a tonne of ice – tonnes of tonnes, actually – into the harbour requiring a bit of boat juggling to stop them getting crushed. Add a few iceberg calvings into the mix, and you’ve got some seriously intense seas!
Chris
Yeh yeh! Washing line my a☆☆e. The Greenland early warning antenna works better higher up!
Happy Greenland National Day!🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱
Love it! 🙂
I love the scenery, but the thought of living with that much snow and ice for that long… nope. I live in South Africa and you should hear all the whining about the cold when the temperature gets to 20 degress Celsius, never mind the occasional frost or flurry of snow. I also wonder at the wisdom of putting the hospital and houses right on the shore like that. I can just see a big wave flattening everything.
And it happens all too often.