AA&F

Image 0: Akureyri, Iceland. The small town on the north coast of Iceland from where we flew to Greenland
Image 1: Fairchild aircraft at Mesters Vig air strip
Image 2: The group outside the departure terminal at Mesters Vig. The base is being downgraded by the Danish government and is currently manned by only 2 Sirius Patrol serviceman - though one did have his mum and dad staying with him to cook and clean etc
Image 3: A lead and zinc mine was situated a few miles inland from Mesters Vig. The mine was serviced from this township between 1956 and 1962 and as it was built before 1974 when the national park was created is considered part of the parks industrial heritage, and is therefore sacrosanct. Unlike the air base, which was built after 1974 and if it was completely decommissioned would have to be entirely removed
Image 4: Loading up the Twin Otter at Mesters Vig for our final one and a half's hour flight to Krumme Langsø
Image 5: View down the lake towards Snehvide
Image 6: Group heading up Sødal valley
Image 7: Large wintergreen (Pyrola grandiflora)
Image 8: Gentiana tenella, one of two gentians in the area
Image 9: Dad heading out from Camp 1
Image 10: We were visited by an Arctic fox who took great interest in our camp. It particularly liked the stash of fish guts left over from our dinner. And I think it was responsible for running off with my only bar of soap - apparently soap is a great fox delicacy.
Image 11: I don't know who was more interested in whom
Image 12: Arctic poppy (Papaver radicata)
Image 13: A pothole in the limestone. There's a tide line on the wall marking the ancient water level.
Image 14: Melandruim apetalum
Image 15: Gentiana detonsa, the other gentian in the area
Image 16: View of Sødal looking down toward the lake
Image 17: A bull musk ox
Image 18: There were a pair of (shy) Great Northern Divers on this lake, which we passed on our way to Vibekes So
Image 19: Harebell Campanula giesekiana
Image 20: A snow bunting
Image 21: River in the Graven valley feeding into the head of the lake
Image 22: The head of Krumme Langsø. The Greenland ice cap is just visible on the tops of the mountains in the background
Image 23: A dunlin - there was a wee pond just outside our tent and every evening a dozen or so dunlins came down to feed
Image 24: Dryas octopetla
Image 25: Looking east down Krumme Langsø
Image 26: A lemming
Image 27: Looking up the lake to camp 2. The river was dark red due to large amount of red sediment carried down from the Tagbjergen hills
Image 28: Looking up Krumme Langsø from the red river
Image 29: The southern slopes of Sørggen
Image 30: Moss campion (Silene acaulis)
Image 31: The head of Promenadedal - classic glacial outwash deposits
Image 32: Saxifraga cernua
Image 33: View east down Promenadedal towards the Wordie Glacier
Image 34: Vibekes Glacier from Tagbjergen
Image 35: The Waltershausen Glacier from the air
Image 36: Purple saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia)
Image 37: Looking over to Vibekes Glacier with the remnants of the Tagbjergen ice cap in the foreground
Image 38: Tufted Sax (Saxifraga cespitosa)
Image 39: Looking up towards Krumme Langsø from the gorge
Image 40: A musk ox bull
Image 41: A path along the lake side - created not by people, but by musk ox
Image 42: Mountain bistort (Persicaria vivipara)
Image 43: Sundogs over Hjørnejerget
Image 44: Yellow saxifrage (Saxifraga aizoides)
Image 45: The Sirius hut, surrounded by our tents - waiting to be picked up for our homeward journey
Image 46: The landing strip at Krumme Langsø, with the Twin Otter coming in to land to take us home.
Image 47: Constable Point air strip - which has superceeded the air strip at Mesters Vig as the main East Greenland air hub. We stopped off here to change planes before heading back to Iceland.