We had a full day in Nanortalik, Greenland’s most southerly town, and went ashore on a water shuttle. No guided tour, just a wander around by ourselves. More substantial bergie bits were floating around offshore the town.

The town is spread out a bit from the small wharf where the shuttles dock. Not a lot of tourist infrastructure around, apart from an open air museum. The buildings appear to be old houses that have been repurposed to house memorabilia. Although the building in which the seal processing techniques from the old days are explained, along with the traditional equipment, appears to be the spot where it all happened.

Problem is that most of the signage is in Danish, so a little hard to work out what it all is and does.

The old Lutheran church dominates the town’s streetscape. An impressive interior.
The houses are fairly basic but very colourful and make for interesting photos against the surrounding ground vegetation, rocks and skyline. Buttercups are out and blooming. The face in the rock looks skywards.

The fish market is also interesting for its offerings of fish and seal meat. The later is a bit off putting, sort of a twisted pile of seemingly bloodied raw stuff! Blubber I suppose. Homealone didn’t want to stay long here and the fish guy wanted $US1 to take a photo!

We headed off to check out the supermarket to see what the locals could get. Everything here is brought in by ship, no local production. Some interesting prices.

Small avocados $A3.50 and a 500g pack of cornflakes $A12.30. T shirts in the lone souvenir shop circa $A50. The local incomes on average don’t match that back in Aus!
Down on the waterfront a kayak is offered for rent, 1 hour $A91. Slobro had been interested, but his pocket money had run out!

We had a plate of Greenland nachos for a late lunch snack at Cafe 43, before catching a shuttle back to the ship.

The weather for our day in Nanortalik had been excellent and as we sailed off the sun was glistening on the bergie bits. It had been cool, around 5/6 C, so beanie weather!

It was an interesting day looking around the town and observing a culture and environment very different to our own.

The Captain was making a quick run to our next stop at Qaqortoq, about 100 km away, hoping to make it before dark, about 11pm. So avoiding navigating among the growing number of larger icebergs and possibly fog during the dark.