Yesterday I had Ken use the internet to post his pictures first as i knew we could lose the internet at any moment. So I now just added the short write up above his pictures. The people are a mixture of the Danish and Inuit people.

Internet was off most of the afternoon. As we proceed I think it is going to be off more than on and a whole period with no internet as they have to change the satellite they use and we will not have ANY internet. So far no word on the new ice conditions from the expedition team.

Marc is walking and has lost a LOT of weight. He looks great.

Last night after dinner we had a big circle of people in the panorama lounge enjoying drinks. The weather was stunning. Brilliant sunshine and not a ripple in the sea.

I was told that the last trip we did to Antarctica was on the ships video. That was the one where we landed at Elephant Island that was a very rare event. Our expedition leader Robin West said he had NEVER been able to do that before. Two other ships were around us and none of them even attempted it but everyone who wanted to go from the Silver Explorer walked on Elephant Island.

So we decided since so many of those "lucky" people are here we will also see Narwhals on the trip and keep our luck going.

ILULISSAT

This morning we heard the bumping of the ice on the boat. We are sitting in brilliant sunshine, looking at ice and some big icebergs and hardly a ripple on the sea. It is stunning. Ken is out taking the picture of an large iceberg in the sun with the fog immediately behind.

Our problem is that the area near the Ilulisat is covered with fog and we cannot proceed until this clears. We can see it is visibly lifting so we are just waiting. Today the plan was to visit the town and also go out in a small local fishing boat to get closer to the big icebergs.

We were told this is the biggest glacier in the world. The Icebergs break off the glacier and then get caught in the fjord in front of the glacier due to an underwater moraine. As that ice pressure builds up big icebergs break over the top. It is those big icebergs we are going to visit in the local boat.

Hopefully I will be back with what actually happens today and more pictures.