We chased after Eagles Quest in an unofficial race. We managed to overtake them…..

Ben Edwards, crew while expedition, from southern Greenland 30th September

So today was fairly short.  I woke up at about twelve to a slightly burnt egg and bacon sandwich.  We were already under way as Mike and co had cruelly denied me the chance to help with untying!   The day was glorious as we chased after Eagles Quest in an unofficial race.  We managed to overtake them as we neared our anchoring place.  On our way we passed a huge grounded iceberg that we did a three-sixty around it, during which it gave an almighty crack a small piece broke off.  That was startling.  I did get pictures but for various technical reasons I’ve been unable to send them.  Sorry, I am working on it.  We had a brief sighting of whales but it wasn’t anything to get too excited about.  I helped Mike make lunch.  What we made was ‘Extract Of Char’.  We cut up the remainder of the fish and boiled it along with a couple of stock cubes and vegetables.  Then we sieved the fish and so on out and poured the broth over pasta.  It was very nice, thank you Shaun.  When we reached our anchorage there was already a Russian yacht there.  The anchorage looked not than good so we went round to the other side of the island to another beautiful anchorage close to a stony beach.  The reason we went there is the island has a natural hot spring that forms a small pool. So we got the dinghy out and four of us went ashore.  The pool was small and shallow but quite nice I didn’t go in.  I’m going back tomorrow.  When we got there we discovered there were already three Inuit children and a dog.  We couldn’t speak to them and the dog hated DavidWD so we just co-existed for the hour or so we were there.  For me it was really lovely because I could run.  I haven’t run for months, it was so nice.  The views were amazing and when I get the data disks back online I’ll send them over.  Until then I’ve got a game of Irish snap going on, see you.