Lyhyt matkapäiväkirja risteilyltä Reykjavikista Kangerlussuaqiin, 15.7. - 25.7.2009

Risteily M/S Kristina Reginalla:
Reykjavik - Qaqortoq - Narsaq - Nuuk - Evighedsfjorden - Ilulissat - Sisimiut - Kangerlussuaq.
http://www.kristinacruises.com/
17.7.2009 Meripäivä

Risteily M/S Kristina Reginalla:
Reykjavik - Qaqortoq - Narsaq - Nuuk - Evighedsfjorden - Ilulissat - Sisimiut - Kangerlussuaq.
http://www.kristinacruises.com/
17.7.2009 Meripäivä

Lopulta kun kello yöllä lähestyy yhtä, menen hyttiini ja jään syvään mustaan makaamaan. Ja aallot vievät minut kauas pois.
English translation....
A morning in the middle of arctic sea. The weather is sunny and warm and the sea is calm. Deck passages and seats are filled with people and I'm again on a journey to the great unknown. My mind is filled with expectation and the ship is cutting through the small dark blue waves. Above is almost cloudless sky but the forecast agent promises troubles in Greenland. The ice sheet or ice stream has moved from north to the south and is now preventing our travel route and we have to choose another course in order to remain in schedule arriving our next destination in Greenland. We are rushing through the northern sea and we have to sail excessive speed, with the speed of 14 knots when normally it would be 10… We are collecting the hours in case we have to take a longer course around the ice stream. Storm birds are following our ship.
I follow our voyaging for a while from the bridge and look the ship's prow as it cuts the waves. I feel myself peaceful just like I was born to here, in the middle of the ocean. Whales are escorting our trip, once in a while in the horizon there are sprays of water and a sleek back before it goes again under the waves and into the embrace of the sea currents. I feel almost perfect, only slight longing makes my mind to fly elsewhere, far away to the other side of the sunrays. To that another world that is so far away now, that it merely even exists.
In the afternoon clouds start gathering from the south and the waves are changing into surges. The ship is rocking sideways and cutting the surges diagonally. The night is getting darker because we are traveling southward towards the southern tip of Greenland. Beneath us is three thousand meters of water and the sea is black. I take a sauna and relax alone with couple of beers in the swinging of the ship. In the Manouvre Bar the night ends again too early and I'm finally the only customer chatting with the crew.
Eventually when it's close to one o'clock I go to my cabin and I stay lying in deep black. And the waves are carrying me far away.
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