Latitude 72

Right now we are on our way out of Upernavik, our last stop in Greenland. Greenland has been a funny place with odd people. A mix of Inuit and Danish…and all their houses are painted very bright colors. It's really hard to remember that it's summer up here when we are all so cold, but then we see little kids riding around on bikes and guys heading out on their little motor boats to go fishing, hunting or sealing. I can only imagine what winter is like up here…cold. Today we actually had a good taste of summer though; it was sunny and warm (60s) for a while. Rob and I went swimming and hung out on deck and had pizza and a beer with icebergs in the background. Then on our way out we had a brief shower followed by the brightest most amazing rainbow I have ever seen. Anyway we are about to begin our trip across Baffin Bay to Dundas Harbor and into Lancaster Sound to Resolute. We are so far north at this point that we can barely pick up the Inmarsat satellite that we use for email. Last time we connected the satellite was at 4 degrees above the horizon…the earth is literally getting in the way. We have a back up Iridium satphone that will work up here for emergencies but email is going to be limited to none until we get to Resolute sometime around the 14th and then start heading back south! Hopefully we have good wind, fair weather and limited ice for our crossing and a clear shot into Lancaster Sound!