Archive for November, 2008

Nov 21 2008

Pirate Buggy Redux

Published by under Canada,Churchill

Joe Lorenzini was one of the guys on the trip north to photograph polar bears. He’s a cool guy and a great photographer – check out his site here. Joe took some shots which better illustrate the “pirate ship” idea than I did. He’s kind enough to let me show them here: Here is the […]

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Nov 19 2008

And the Winner is…

Published by under Boston

Many thanks to those of you who submitted captions for the contest. There were some clever and funny entries, some were crude (not that that matters I guess), I admit that there were one or two I didn’t get, and one person tried to slip in after the deadline (you know who you are!). After […]

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Nov 17 2008

View From My Window #2

Published by under Canada,Winnipeg

I’ll put this up for completeness since we’ve done it for all the places on all the other trips this year. The Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg is very nice and my room was great but the view? Well… – Dave

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Nov 16 2008

Scenes Around Churchill

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To give you a taste of Churchill, here are a few miscellaneous shots around town that didn’t fit into other posts. Around the perimeter of town there are many signs like this one warning of dangers: Churchill is a working grain port. There’s a railroad line that comes all the way north and stops at […]

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Nov 16 2008

The Pirate Buggy

Published by under Canada,Churchill

Near the end of our time in Churchill, I was speaking with someone in one of the other groups who rode in another buggy near ours. They said that whenever we approached a bear, they saw all of our windows go down in unison and many long lenses poke out of the windows. They said […]

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Nov 16 2008

Photo of the Day #5

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– Dave

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Nov 16 2008

Mush Puppies!

Published by under Canada,Churchill

Today was our last day and, aside from logistics of packing up and checking out, the main event for me was the optional dog sledding. Four of our group did this and it was really fun. When we showed up, the dogs were chained and not in their harness. Once they saw us, they went […]

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Nov 16 2008

View From My Window #1

Published by under Canada,Churchill

My window looked out behind the hotel. The hotel is at one end of the town and polar bears can come close to the hotel if they enter the town. We were warned repeatedly not to ever walk behind the hotel since bears are frequently back there. I haven’t seen any yet from the window […]

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Nov 15 2008

Photo of the Day #4

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– Dave

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Nov 15 2008

Town Tour and Night Buggy

Published by under Canada,Churchill

Today we started with a tour of Churchill. Here is our stylin’ set of wheels: One of the places we went was the “Bear Jail.” It’s a big Quonset hut that has traps/pens for about 30 bears. There were 13 there when we went. When a bear just won’t stop coming into town or somehow […]

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