Scoresbysund zodiac cruise

Paul was called during the night for ice duty and came back sometime after 5am. He got a photograph of the sunset, but the sun didn't set.

I was awake around 8.30am but not wanting to wake Paul up, relaxed in bed for a while until he woke up. Unfortunately I missed a lecture at 9.30am but we watched a later lecture from our t.v. screen about the Greenlandic people. It was a nice talk given by a woman from Greenland about their culture and way of life.

We arrived at Scoresbysund around lunchtime, and we joined guests for a zodiac cruise amongst bergy bits and to sea ice onto which Meryl, our driver, beached the zodiac. We got out and stood in a demarkated area on the frozen sea. Meanwhile, there was a bear guard keeping watch.

We had to use another zodiac to get back to the ship because the one we left the ship in started to cut out when we went fast towards the sea ice. Meryl radio'd the Bridge that there was a problem despite checking the fuel supply line and other things. A member of the expedition team came across to us on the sea ice in an empty zodiac, and Meryl requisitioned it, and the wayward zodiac was taken back to the ship.

We got back to the ship without any further hiccups.Read more