Hi guys. I just wanted to share some pictures of abandoned buildings. Throughout the summer George and I have been exploring some of the uglier parts of Churchill too! During the 50s and 60s Churchill had an American navy base and the population bustled with over 5500 (today it's 850). Most of the buildings were destroyed, as the Americans didn't want to leave a functioning base, just in case the Russians decided to come over. A few building were used for a few more years before they were deserted and left for the elements to take their toll. Every town has [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys. The highlight of the week this week was during a trip to the dump!!! It's not uncommon to see a big, dirty polar bear rummaging through the food scraps at the town dump, but I was super excited to see a wolverine! He (or she) was all straggly, gnarly and grumpy looking, and although the backdrop of plastic garbage bags and piles of Pampers wasn't visually inspiring, it was a very powerful experience! My first ever wolverine. So cool! Buggy 17 got into a wee bit of trouble out on the tidal flats near Polar Bear Point. The driver [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys! The Ithaca sits on a bed of gravel on a shallow tidal flat off the Manitoba coast about 18 km east of Churchill. It is about a 1 km hike at low tide to get out there, so George and I decided we would go and check it out. We headed out with the tide, getting our feet wet as we marched across the tidewater pools, carrying guns of course as there is always a chance of seeing nanuq. It was super cool! Climbing over the massive engine, to get to the boiler room so that we could climb [View Full Entry]

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Hi folks! The north wind has been howling for a couple of days now. It is starting to feel like fall, but somehow the temperatures are struggling to get below freezing? Not that I mind, as I have a lot of work to do out on the tundra, I could do with a couple more weeks of warm (Relative for the time of year) weather. Our mobile lodge has been hauled out to the wild and barren, windswept and bleak Polar Bear Point, and we've already had a group of 'campers'. Polar Bears International (PBI) had a group of students staying [View Full Entry]

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Well, hello! Everyone! Dave has certainly left us with some amazing visuals of the Polar Bear and Beluga capital of the world, Churchill, Manitoba. So just to balance out the news coverage, I have taken a few photos of Sioux Lookout (our headquarters) where I am holding the fort with Lilah, our 19 year old cat. When the lupins come out, boy do they bloom! And I just got the tail end of the blooming window of opportunity, back in July. Altho a wet summer was had by all, we are having the most fabulous September ever! I am still picking [View Full Entry]

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Hi there blog-meisters! Theresa and I have had a fun week up in Churchill... We dined in Churchill's finest restaurants (all two of them), and took a couple of very colourful and scenic drives along the coast. One highlight was having a polar bear run across the main street in town when we were out walking! Just a nice reminder that you could be killed and eaten at any time by Nanuq!!! I had to fly to Winnipeg for a day to do a work related course, which was fun, except the timing was a little bad. It was right in [View Full Entry]

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Hi there. The bears have been putting on quite the show in the last few days as we have seen two different bears eating two different caribou carcasses! I am guessing that the wolves killed the caribous as we saw their tracks nearby. As the bears have been picking away at carcasses, I have been picking blueberries and other wild berries. It takes a while to pick any quantity, so its usually just pick 'em and eat 'em as I find them! The last of the flowers have bloomed and most are now gone, the shrubs are turning red and brown [View Full Entry]

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Greetings to you all. The Beluga whales have been frolicking in the river mouth for the last couple of months and are now migrating out of the river and out of the Hudson Bay. I think it is time to share with you, some of these magic moments I have spent with these magnificent mammals. From the Zodiac they are wonderful, but from a kayak they are even more amazing. I love when they swim under the kayak and blow bubbles, it can be quite a sensation! Their vocal sounds can be heard easily when the water is calm, and the [View Full Entry]

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All is well here in on the fringe of the Arctic. We have had our first frost of the season (only 4 weeks since the last frost of spring), so fall is on it's way! However we are experiencing an Indian summer as the temps are now on the rise for the next few days. The good weather has caused a flurry of activity in the Tundra Buggy shop. We can finally do some of our work out side! There are still a lot of bears in the area, in fact there has been sightings of black bears and grizzly bears [View Full Entry]

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Great news! Out on the tundra we were amazed when we saw a mum with her three young cubs! It was quite the thrill and it has caused quite the sensation around the world among polar bear experts and enthusiasts alike. It made national news here in Canada and we are all very excited up in Churchill. The threesome were all very chubby and mum looked in real good shape! I hope they make it through the next winter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WTDbzCTDJA (I can't seem to get the link to publish properly? So you'll have to copy and paste it!) Enjoy... Dave [View Full Entry]

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