Sunday, our strop was at thetoen of Paamiut. The primary industry here is fishing. The town has a population of about 1500.
This is our first time here. Our excursion today was "Paamuit of Foot".
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| No sunrise ti be dbben todY. |
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| We started seeing icebergs early in the Mormino |
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| The entrance to the harour |
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| Getting thw tender dock reardy |
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| Getting om and off the ship was not easy. The ocean swell kept the tender bouncing up an down. The crew member qwas trying to staedy the tender at the shkip tender dock. |
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| The city park, |
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| A hotel |
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| One end of the hospital |
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| A grocery Store. About all the was open on a Sunday. |
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| The back of the hospital. |
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| The other grocery stoe in town |
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| The sports complex |
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| The police station |
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| The community center |
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| Water and sewer lines are above ground because of permafrost. |
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| The power plant |
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| The cemetery |
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| The sports fields |
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| Cemetery entrance |
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| Residences for the Paamiut Sailor School |
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| A raven flying overhead. |
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| The Paamiut Chrch |
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| A place for artisans to work and sell their roducts |
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| The Greenland flag |
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| A Watchtower is now a tourist atrtraction |
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| The view from the nwatchtower |
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| I could see our ship anchored in the fjord |
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| The are replacing the stairs up to the tower |
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| A replica of a sod house |
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| Late morning their was a problem with the tender dock in town. It gor hung up on the rocks when the tide went out and it was tilting the floating dock |
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| A guuy in a boat tried to fix it |
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| The ahd to bring in a crane to raise the ramp to take the weight off the floating dock so it could be pulled out |
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| The boat pulled it aff the rocks |
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| They then adjusted the anchor chain |
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| Fixed |
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| Waiting tenders could now unload /load |
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| Kathey was waiting for the first tender back to the ship |
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| Royal Greenland fish processing plant owned by the Kingdom of Greenland |
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| Fishing equipment |
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| Somone was repairing a net |
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| Line-up for tender back to the ship |
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| From a diry tender window |
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| A derilect ship sitting near the inner harbor entrance |
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| Communications towers on a nearby hill |
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| Lifting the tenders |
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| Sailing away |
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| We passed a number of icebergs \ |
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| No sunset seen tonight (11:22 PM) |
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