Now that we are in week three of our total lockdown I think my itchy feet are starting to show! Like me, you might just be starting to think about future travel plans, maybe it’s time to move out of your cosy home and spend a few days getting up close and personal with some polar bears! While you are planning, Polar Bears International who … Continue reading Polar Bears During Lockdown.
Our camp at the Arctic Circle beside Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada was extremely small and a little flimsy looking as we got our first glimpse of it when flying in from Churchill. However, others had survived and lived to tell the tale and after all the tiny little electric fence around the camp would scare the polar bears away, wouldn’t it….. Also, leaning up against … Continue reading Luxury Among the Bears
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A cheeky, supposedly friendly arctic fox ran up to me as soon as I stepped out onto the snow after the hour long flight from Churchill, Manitoba. We had finally arrived at the arctic circle on the edge of Hudson Bay and I had to remember this was a wild animal looking for food. Cute but mean and an opportunist when it came to dinner. … Continue reading Fantastic Mister Fox
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Three hours after we had left Pond Inlet, a small Inuit community at the top of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada we arrived at our very luxurious camp on the floe edge. It had been an exciting but extraordinarily uncomfortable trip sitting in a qamutik (traditional Inuit wooden sledge) being towed by a snowmobile for five hours. We were about 60 kilometres out over the sea … Continue reading The Icy Floe Edge
It’s quite difficult to imagine how big a male polar bear is, 3 metres (10 foot) doesn’t sort of sound much. After all Steven Adams is 2.13 metres (seven foot). But 750 Kilos (three quarters of a ton) starts to make it all sound a bit more overwhelmingly real.Even play fighting like these young polar bears shows the terrifying power in their huge bodies. They … Continue reading Three Quarters of a Ton and See Through Hair
Flying in our DHC 3 Otter we landed on the ice pretty well exactly at the Arctic Circle on the edge of Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada. We had flown from Churchill, about a one hour flight over tundra and snow. It was late afternoon and we settled in to our warm, comfortable cabins before enjoying a lovely dinner with excited, convivial like minds. The … Continue reading Polar Bear Guests
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