It’s rare to be able to watch mother polar bears together with their cubs in the wild. One place you can experience that is Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge, a small Hudson’s Bay outpost south of Churchill, Manitoba.
Slip into a baggy, rubber dry suit, slide over the side of a Zodiac into the icy waters of Canada’s Hudson Bay, and suck air through your snorkel as you try to still your racing pulse. Oh, yeah—and remember to hum.
When Helen Webber gets a Canada goose in her sights, it’s not for a classic Canadian wildlife photo. In the North, that distinctive black-and-white bird is not only a classic Canadian symbol, it’s the other red meat. Goose is often on the menu at Webber’s Dymond Lake Lodge in Churchill, MB, the place to bag your limit of birds during the spring or fall hunting season.
Canadian Inuit can construct cozy igloos in an hour or two. They always use hardpacked snow from a single storm. They know building blocks made with different snow types from various storms crumble when shaped and stacked. They know that in Canada’s icebound north, Ma Nature doesn’t allow “do-overs.” Now southern novices can try it, too.
Churchill, MB is to the northern lights what Broadway is to musical theatre: the shows are big, the actors are reliable and you never know when you’re going to encounter an award-winning performance.
