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Paddling in
Upernavik again Gail Ferris |
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Over night I found that the waves were relaxing to hear. They are created by a good wind out farther and I can see that the wind has developed with whitecaps to the south I am glad that I happened to put my tent where it is on the east side of this land protected from the wind that comes from the west. The size height of plants indicate winds blow here forcing
them to grow spread out low hugging rocks. There is clear blue light in the sky above. I am up at 6:30 ate breakfast and I heard something maybe a whale just outside breathing long breaths three times in rhythm going by. I looked at the barometer it has climbed 3 steps in 2 to 3 hours to 29.90mHg in 24 hours very mild assorted high clouds showing a mix of stratus and cumulus spread out. Sunny quiet morning. Thinking about “the dark side” of life is as you make it! Surface of the water is showing red fatty particles maybe some sort of fatty material, spawn or something from the Sea Butterflies that are Pteropods which feed on the bottom of the icebergs nearby? |
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2011 07 25 0658 (0858) Angmaussaarssuaq island.jpg++ looking
toward Aappilattoq look at the shape of the rock in the foreground it is a
layered rounded shape formed by metamorphosis of marine sediments, something
commonly found in this area of Upernavik which in places is very handy
because it forms nice ramps to bring my kayak up on and drag up above the
tide line with rollers. My kayak is
too heavy for me to lift. |
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2011 07 25 0658 (0858) tent islands north.jpg++ view of islands in
the north |
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2011 07 25 0700
(0900) looking north east.jpg the ice off the
island with the rock in foreground morning |
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2011 07 25 0711 (0911)591.jpg++ On Simiataq there is glaciated rock in foreground granitic batholith with kayak on rocks below and some waves coming in from the iceberg breaking up. That position worked out to be too close to the water for the kayak. Note clouds showing overhead coming from the west. |
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My Long Haul kayak deck always leaks through the stitching
along the top of the gunwales as the water drips after running down paddle
shaft. This material Sunbrella can
only be sealed by welding it not with stitching. I need make my paddle shaft more hydrophobic by waxing the
shaft. Paddling a kayak without a drysuit in this water you are a goner instantly. |
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2011 07 25 0712 (0912)592.jpg ++ looking toward
Aappilattoq taken from Simiataq |
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Some wind is showing in the morning but by |
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2011 07 25 0747 (0947)593.jpg++ On Simiataq this is
the bottom just aside from my tent showing filamentous seaweeds with Fucus knotted
wrack and soft sour seaweeds and acorn rough barnacles in foreground note
rock is orange colored granite due to the limonite iron content |
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2011 07 25 0748 (0948)594 reduced.jpg++ this
is the same photo as above but enlarged so that you can see the barnacles
actively feeding and the particulate matter in the water. This is one of those situations when my
camera is photographing what my eye cannot see until I enlarge the photo. |
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2011 07 25 0748
(0948)594.jpg |
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I took photos and videos of the waves and scenes. There is hardly any wind.
2011 07 25 2009 (2209)128.jpg++ On the east end of |
