The ferry is much smaller than I expected. The Alaskan Marine Ferry had cars and trucks in the bottom, so each ferry was bigger than this. There is a children's play area, a lounge, a cinema and the eating area. Each day we have had some Greenlandic food at lunch - Narsaq lamb soup, reindeer. I have an enormous room - it is bigger than some motel rooms!
For the first half of the trip there was an Australian couple on board. They started from Ilulissat, went south the entire way, and then north to Nuuk. Now there are a lot of Danes on board - most are a tour group. However the vast majority of the people on board are Greenlandic.
Today we stopped at Kangaamiut where there isn't a dock, so everyone was taken there by a boat - including a baby and its pram and an elderly person on crutches. The small children were lifted onto the boat, and everyone was wearing life vests (except the people in the other boat from town that trailed the ferry boat as it went to and fro three times).
Then we stopped at Sisimiut from 17:00 until 19:00. The Danish tour group had arranged for the museum to be open. It included the oldest house and the oldest church in Greenland as well as a reconstructed turf winter house. A photographer had taken a number of pictures in 1936. This had been followed by another in 2004, and then they had school children take pictures. The three sets of photographs were exhibited together.
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