Churchill Motel
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Cape Churchill, Sunday
... incredible experience to come face to face with one of these beautiful animals. Our driver is a daredevil and his window slides open whereas ours drop down by half. He held his camera with a long lens outside and the bear actually sniffed it! Phew! After that, almost everyone went to sleep, probably from excitement! We returned to our space capsule lodge in a blizzard. Having not set ...
Cape Churchill, Wednesday
... shutters is very similar to the tennis finals. Our little cameras are rank amateurs compared to the massive telephoto lenses and cameras used by everyone else. The next bear show was the best we've seen yet. We came upon two big young males sparring. It was terrific to watch them playfully having a go at each other. They were pushing, hugging and hi 5ing with both paws. The wind chill factor today was very high today. ...
Churchill to Polar Bear Point. Monday
BEARS. Saw many bears on our way to the lodge. Mother ad 2 cubs. So cute. Went crazy taking photos. Our buggy driver suddenly got very ill with kidney a stones. A helicopter then met with our buggy to airlift our sick driver to hospital in Churchill. Dan, the professional photographer then took over the driving. Before he took over driving he gave us a lecture on photography. Histodgrams, for instance., to help get better shots of the bears on snow. It ...
More Time on the Tundra
... he had mildly damaged and make the place look like it was at the early stages of burning down.....luckily the maintenance crew on board put a stop to his antics and repaired the damage.
We left the lodge (finally) and crept our way over the tundra. The tundra is the wide open expanse of the area that looks something like the moonscape that we see in pictures and on TV. It is flat for as far as the eye can see and littered with rocks, dormant ...
Windy Churchill.....
... to talk about as it was decided that we make our way back to the lodge. This session of taking photos lasted for quite a while and when taking these shots the windows in the buggy had to be opened....and it was extremely cold....especially with that wind cutting through everything.....everyone was frozen.....but thoroughly enjoyed the chance to see the bears in action out in their natural habitat.
On our way back to the lodge, Jim our driver got stuck in a m*********** on ...
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