Home sweet Home
I'll start with a few photos I saw of my Greenland home when we first arrived.
Warehouse where all research/field items are stored. This is where we got all of our camping supplies and where the items Dartmouth shipped were stored.
Inside the warehouse
All of our items we will be taking out in the field. Our personal items have not been added to the pile yet.
The team woke up early in the morning to prepare. Our goals today were to gather our supplies, set up camp, and make dinner. First, we went to the airport to have breakfast. Yes, the airport, it has one of the two restaurants in town. Breakfast consisted of bread, cheese, and some meats I could not identify. Afterwards, we met with Kathy Young at KISS who is the field equipment coordinator. She had prepared the supplies for us at the warehouse. Some of the supplies had been shipped from Dartmouth (food and equipment) while the rest (tents, chairs, kitchen items) was provided to us. After we loaded up our trucks with all of our items we had lunch and I went in search for 75 stamps. I was more successful than a lot of people thought I would be and managed to find 75 stamps which I used on my postcards my students made. After getting the stamps I licked 75 stamps and then put them in the mail.
Postcards with stamps
Official Greenlandic stamp
Sending my postcards off that my students made. I hope they make it to the US
After we had loaded our gear, had lunch, checked out of KISS, and mailed my postcards we headed out into the field to set up camp.
The crew about to leave for camp
We drove around 20 minutes and passed the "forest" which consisted of about a dozen foot high evergreen trees, a caribou, and entered the sand dunes.
Cabin I saw on the way to camp. I want to live there
Driving on the longest road in Greenland
Caribou spotting
We parked off the side of the road and then preceded to cary all of our stuff to camp which was about a forth of a mile farther. Some of the items were very heavy including propane tanks, coolers with food, kitchen supply boxes, and 10 gallon water jugs. We then set up the food tent so we could get dinner started. The dinner tent is an Arctic oven which basically means that it is big, holds in heat, and you can cook in it if you want. Here is a time lapse video showing the group setting up the food tent.
Time Lapse Video (Coming soon)
In a couple of days I will take you on a virtual tour of the camp so you can get a better idea of how we are living.
For dinner we had stir fry and then we relaxed and I listened to Christine play the ukulele and Becca play the mandoline. Before heading to bed I went on an evening stroll and came across a river with pieces of ice flowing down stream. It was neat to see the ice sheet breaking up small scale.
Ice floating down the river
I then fell exhausted in bed and slept straight until morning.
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