They needed me off the boat for most of the day to undertake maintenance tasks. I was dropped ashore at around noon, and they said they would be ready late afternoon when the other crew arrived. I did meet some other crew when I got ashore, they had camped outside of the town for the night as the hotel was full. We explored the town and went to the very small museum.
The museum is two small rooms in a converted house and privately run. We had to call up to get the museum opened for us and pay a fee. The museum is a collection of Inuit articles collected by one person and now displayed by his family following his death.
There was a Narwhal tusk, these can grow to 2 metre long, but their purpose is still not really understood, but thought to relate to navigation. There is a still a very limited quota to hunt Narwals. There is a very limited quota to hunt polar bears, but any killed in self-defence come off that quota the following year. Seals are hunted without quota. They are hunted for food and the other products they give but as protected species, souvenirs cannot be exported.
There are no trees in Greenland and all timber is imported or driftwood. Here on the eastern side of Greenland driftwood come largely from Siberia. One of the items in the museum was a wooden map of the local coastline that could be matched to a modern map. This wooden map would have been easy to use in a small boat, kayak or dog sled.
The population is largely Inuit, they are linked to the Inuit across Alaska and Canada but have been here for many thousands of years. Their technology did not allow them to travel beyond Greenland, the next land was Iceland 450 miles away.
Late in the afternoon we were picked up on the small wharf by the dinghy and the rest of the crew joined the boat. The crew was nine in total, seven Czechs one Portuguese and one me! The skipper, Ales and the mate Roman, were both Czech. Communication was not an issue as they all spoke good English.
We were only 8 that night as one more was joining Saturday due to flights.
Part of the group had gone out line fishing in a local boat and got dropped back to GS with a catch of fresh cod. This was cooked by the mate Roman for supper and it was very good so fresh only having been caught a few hours before.
We spotted a whale spouting in the distance but too far to identify the type of whale. We were told it was most likely a Minke in the fjords.