Happy Zero nine everybody. Zero eight saw us bounce around from one part of the Canada to another. And we're still bouncing! Theresa and I left Sioux Lookout a week before old St. Nick saddled up the reindeer, and headed south-east, our first stop was Thunder Bay. Although far from tropical, we enjoyed our walk along the lake shore, as well as the delights of T-Bays bookstores. Snow-shoeing with our friends was great fun, as were the pot-luck suppers and secret Santas. We then drove for 20 odd hours through the icy domain of northern Ontario's frozen interior, whizzing through a few small communities en-route before ending up in Casselman in the far south eastern region of Ontario. We spent about a week with Theresa's mum and enjoyed the annual delights of French-Canadian culture, festive dining, ... read more

Hi everyone (report from Dave). Up here on the Manitoba coast, 30 miles east of Churchill, I've been witnessing day by day, one of the worlds great migrations. Hundreds of polar bears congregate on this point of land during late October and mid-November as this is where southern Hudson Bay freezes first. Every day more and more bears are coming by the lodge as they wait impatiently for the bay to freeze. It's an incredible sight! The bears are naturally curious and many of them come right up to the lodge to check us out. At the minute we have a mother and 2 cubs, 3 big males, and a few smaller bears in the distance. During the last few weeks I have watched in awe as big males fight with each other to show their ... read more

Hi Everyone! Dave and I are having a great time in Churchill as we get caught up in the energy of the tourist season of the Polar Bear Capital of the world, Churchill, Manitoba! The Tundra Buggy Lodge is up and running and Dave, Bree (from Australia) and Julie (from Canada) are the people running the show out there with the help of BJ (US). The lodge is a series of portable trailers (on very big wheels!). I've met most of the people who are working for Tundra Buggy Adventures including the family who owns and manages it. Everyone is a team player and they all are working very long hours fine tuning everything before the rush starts (which is next week). Many seasonal workers have arrived by now from all over the world just to ... read more

Hello! We rocketed out of Yellowknife. We drove 3500 km back to Sioux Lookout, Ontario in 5 days! Whew! Huge waterfalls and herds of bison lined the road as we headed out of the Northwest Territories. A seemingly endless expanse of forest sprawled for the first five hundred miles of Northern Alberta before thinning and flattening out into prairie. The mighty sky of the prairies and millions of heads of wheat welcomed us into Saskatchewan and Manitoba. We spent a night in Regina, SK with Karen (thanks Karen, you're the best!) then a couple of nights in Winnipeg with Moe (thanks so much Moey, you’re the best as well!) before making the drive to Sioux Lookout... We stayed in Sioux Lookout for a few days then made a jaunt up to Pickle Lake to help Matt ... read more

Hello all! We left off in Inuvik! Our stay of almost three weeks in the small community, was a great experience. The most unusual feature of the town (in summer) is that it doesn't get dark... We sat out until 3 in the morning to watch the sun not set. It simply bounces off the horizon and goes back up. It's kind of weird having no sense of what time it is. On our last night in Inuvik we went for a stroll along the river front and got invited onto a house boat by a bunch of locals, we then spent the evening drinking red wine and playing musical instruments in a singalong. Next morning we hitched a ride south... To Whitehorse. Kelly drove us the whole way, stopping for a night near Dawson. We ... read more