July 14th, 2024

There is not much to do in Greenland. While the country is very large most of it is a national park. For a capital city Nuuk is pretty small. We have been to Nuuk before and besides them having a dock that we could tie up to instead of it being a tender port there is not a lot going on. We docked around 8am and we did not rush off the boat since we had no plans. Since this port was an add on after we sailed I did not have time to plan anything. Lots of people went out whale watching and apparently saw quite a few.

Kathy and I opted to walk into town which was 1.2 miles from the pier. What Nuuk is most known for is all its colorful buildings. They say the bright colors help to cheer them up when it is dark most of the time in the winter. When we left the boat it was 39 degrees and the high was only getting up to 41 so we were pretty bundled up to go into town.

You can see all the bright colored houses. They also have a ton of condos and more going up. We are not sure if they do construction in the winter since it is dark and much colder.

We walked into town and found a shopping mall that a lot of the boat passengers were at. It looked like that was where the shuttle bus dropped you off if you paid for the shuttle. The mall also had a nice grocery store so we went in and picked up a couple of bags of chips.

Nuuk is on a peninsula so water is on all 3 sides. Does not take long to walk from 1 side to the other.

A weathered looking building

This church has a beautiful view of the water.

There was a large iceberg out in one of the fjords and in the picture on the left you can see all the seagulls perched on the ice. You can also get an idea of the size when the boat is next to it.

They have several wooden board walks that you can take to go up and down the coast and enjoy the views.

You can see from this picture how clear the water is.

Everyone has a boat and a lot of people live up the fjords and bring the boats into Nuuk for supplies. They also depend on seals for their skin and fat and caribou. There is a big fishing industry and mainly they fish for cod and halibut. Halibut runs about a dollar a pound in Greenland since it is so plentiful.

They have a bunch of these little yellow Nuuk taxis that pick up and drop off people in the fjords.

Most of the houses had beautiful water views and you can see one of the boardwalks in front of it.

This family of ducks came by

After about 4 hours in town we headed back to the boat and I stopped in the harbor to get some fishing boat pictures.

Our boat towering over the town. They had shown the Wimbledon men’s finals on the pool deck screen and you could hear the game on shore.

Fishing boats all tied up

There are several staircases that lead up to the houses on the cliff.

You can see the apartments/condos on the hillside above the boats.

You can see all the construction taking place.

When we got back on the boat they had set up the pool deck for the Euro soccer championships. Spain versus England. I was surprised how many people attended. They had ice cold buckets of beer out and some snacks including popcorn. Spain won 2-1.

I walked around on deck waiting for sail away which happened around 6pm.

I liked all the different colored houses lined up looking out on the water.

This little town was across the bay and we liked how compact it was.

During sail away the sun did try to come out and you can see the snow covered mountain sticking out in the background.

We now have 3 days at sea until we dock in Iceland