Churchill, Manitoba is on the 58th parallel, located on the Hudson Bay and the summer holiday destination for about 60% of the world’s population of polar bears as they wait for the oceans to freeze over in winter. October is when the bears start to venture back in from deep within the tundra Boreal forests, hungry and carefully monitoring the weather for safe passage.
Young female polar bear climbing rocks at Bird Cove.
If you look very carefully, you can see a silver fox darting across the wintery scene as he hunts for lunch. It’s the same fox, captured in two images while I was taking a panorama. This is 9 images stiched together.
Arctic Hare
Easily spotted when in the tundra moss, it is hard to believe how seamlessly she can disappear in the snow.
Cape Merry, with the dome of the marine research center in the background.
James Knight sailed into the mouth of the Churchill River to begin construction of a fur trading post for the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1717. The cape was later renamed to honour Captain John Merry, who was the Deputy Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1712-1718.
The Sentinel
Julia, our fully armed bear guard watches over us at all times in case of a bear attack.