The Story Behind the Banner

You might have looked at the banner of my blog and wondered if it is that icy cold where I live. The fact is that the picture is not at all from where I live. It's from Greenland. I was there a year and a bit ago and took the picture while on a boat trip in the Disco Bay. It was late afternoon and the sun had just set when I shot this picture. It's not manipulated at all!

I wisited the town of Ilulisat. It's a inuit town and fishing is their main income. An hours walk from town you can enjoy the view of the Icefjord. This fjord produces ice bergs like few other places. The reason beeing that the fjord is very deep and the parts of the Greenland Ice Cap that breaks off into this fjors are the size of a city block of buildings - over the sea surface! While visiting Ilulisat I made the walk and found myself all on my own in this most spectacular scenery I can imagin!

Nature is present everywhere and all the time in Greenland. It's a perfect place to have unique experiences of your self and nature!

The people of Greenland are very friendly and they are proud of their traditions as they have all reasons to be. They have made a living in one of the least producing environments on earth and I admier their respect for nature. It's sad to know that our mass consumption style of living is destroying their way of living. The effect of climate changes are strongest in the Artic region. Man made toxins are accumulated in sea mamals to such an exstend that the inuits are recommended to eat seal and whale meat only a few times a month and sometimes not at all. We should all do our part to live in a way that doesn't kill the planet.

To end on a more cheerful note, the saying in Ilulisat is that there are twice as many dogs as people in town. And here are a few.