Golden Fishery

The Ilulissat Icefjord is located on the west coast of Greenland, about 250 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. It is very close to the residential area, because although the city of Ilulissat is small, it spreads out widely. There are some residential buildings, restaurants, hotels and the like open.

The season Qin Shiou came to was suitable for seeing the aurora, but not for traveling.

The little doorman told them that if they came here in summer, the snow along the coast of the Ice Bay would melt, revealing weeds and shrubs with a lot of shade, much more beautiful than it is now.

In the territory of Ilulissat now, there is nothing but black and white. This is a world of ice and snow, and it is also a world without color.

Of course, this refers to the ground. Qin Shiou has only seen the splendor of the sky in his life. If the charm of the night sky in the world can be divided into ten parts, then the night sky in the Arctic Circle will account for eight parts!

Of course, Qin Daguan felt that the night sky of Farewell Island should also be given a share, and the rest should be given a share.

The toboggan glides, and the magnificent glacial fjord gradually reveals its vision.

Every year, Greenland transports a large number of ice caps into the ocean. The Ilulissat Icefjord is one of the outlets of the glaciers entering the sea, and it is also the location of the most active glacier in the world.

The little doorman introduced them: "This fjord is very long, gentlemen, but it is winter now, and there are too many glaciers drifting on the water surface, so we can't see very far. In fact, it is 40 kilometers long!"

"Wow, that's amazing." Winnie said with a cooperating smile.

The little doorman twisted his nose, raised his head proudly and said, "Of course, this is a world heritage. I mean, what kind of world cultural heritage is this ice fjord?"

Qin Shiou corrected casually: "It is a world material heritage, this bay should have nothing to do with culture."

What he said was right, but the little doorman was unconvinced and introduced to him that there was an art gallery on the shore, which was full of paintings or sculptures made by tourists for the ice fjord. He insisted that this ice fjord is a full of culture.

The source of the ice fjord is the Jakobshavn Glacier in the eastern region, which is the largest glacier in the northern hemisphere. It can flow 20 to 35 meters per day, and 20 billion tons of icebergs will break off and discharge the fjord every year!

Qin Shiou and others parked their sleigh carts and snowmobiles on the bank, stood on the river bank and looked down, seeing magnificent icebergs drifting along the current.

The sound of "gaba gaba" is constantly heard in the ice bay. Qin Shiou knew that this was the terrible sound made by the ice cubes cracking in the water,

From time to time, there will be a loud 'bang'. This is a large ice block falling from the glacier, which can splash huge waves after falling into the water.

Even though the winter temperature here is always below minus ten degrees Celsius, the glaciers are still not frozen. Because icebergs keep coming downstream, they destroy the frozen river. Not to mention just a frozen river, even a steel plate, an iceberg can smash into pieces.

Seeing the icebergs drifting slowly, Winnie exclaimed: "I have never seen such a large iceberg. The ice floes in St. John's are very small. I think it will be more impressive if you look at the icebergs up close." Spectacular."

Hearing his words, the little door boy rolled his eyes and ran away.

In spring time. The ice floes on the St. Johns sea are the products of these icebergs melting and breaking up. After the broken icebergs flow out of the sea, they first follow the current northward and then turn southward, so that they can flow into the Atlantic Ocean.

Some relatively large icebergs often have to drift to the sea at a latitude similar to that of New York before they melt. But that was before. Now that the global temperature is rising and the influence of the greenhouse effect has spread to the Arctic region, the icebergs will melt before they leave the Canadian waters. Exhausted.

The little doorman ran back after leaving for a while. He said happily: "You have to thank me, I found a sightseeing boat, you can go to the river to see the icebergs more clearly, and you can also go rafting!"

Followed by a middle-aged white man. He came over and asked, "Do you want to go to the river to see it? But the speed must be fast, there are only two hours before the night, and we must come back before it gets dark."

Here in Ilulissat, only sightseeing boats go out to sea when the ice and snow melt in April. Now this season is very dangerous, just like this person said. You have to get back before the sun disappears, or you'll be buried under an iceberg.

Qin Shiou shook hands with him, and then looked at Wei Ni, Hei Dao and the others. Hei Dao and his party shook their heads vigorously. Fuck you, you can see glaciers everywhere in this bay. Going out to sea at this time is a life-threatening job! It's even more desperate than fighting terrorists in the Middle East!

Winnie didn't make a statement, but was a little moved.

Seeing this, before Qin Shiou could say anything, Heidao and his party immediately turned pale, that's all, let's get ready to die.

Sure enough, Qin Shiou said to the ship owner: "Okay, what's the charge? Let's go out to sea and look around, just stay around and look at the icebergs."

The doormat squeaked and said, "Hey, can I watch the snowmobile here?"

The little doorman said unhappily: "There are no thieves here! Do you know that the law and order in our city is the best in the world! The best!"

The doormat likes to tease children, so he said, "How do you judge? I also said that our St. Johns is the safest."

"How many policemen do you have in St. Johns?" asked the doorman.

The doormat was taken aback for a moment, and said inexplicably, "How do I know this? Maybe two hundred? Three hundred?"

The little doorman smiled happily: "We only have six policemen in Ilulissat! Doesn't that explain the problem?"

Qin Shiou lazily argued with these five bastards, he said: "This is voluntary, if you don't want to get on the boat, just wait here."

The doormat immediately smiled, Hei Dao glared at him, and said angrily: "What about professional ethics? We are bodyguards now, understand?"

Qin Shiou secretly thought that if an accident happened at sea, he might not know who would protect whom.

Going out to sea is not just about looking at icebergs, there is another project, which is floating on ice seas.

The boat they took was a wooden boat, only six meters long, and it looked a bit dangerous with so many people on board.

Hei Dao's face turned pale, they sat down obediently after boarding the boat, and kept making the cross on their chests.

Qin Shiou's eyes lit up when he saw the ship, and he said, "I've seen this kind of ship before. This ship should have a long history, right?"

The reason for saying this is that the place where he saw this kind of ship was the bottom of the sea, which is where he discovered the Black Ax pirate ship in the North Sea. At that time, there were four such small ships hanging from the stern of the pirate ship.

The pirate ship has sunk to the bottom of the sea for more than 300 years, so this ship must have a long history.

The owner of the ship gave him a surprised look and said, "Have you seen chalupas? Oh, this is the name of this kind of ship. It used to be used as a whaling ship. Our ancestors rowed such vulnerable wooden boats to sea. Whale catchers.” (To be continued.)

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