Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

My gallery of pictures from my recent trip to Churchill, Canada is now up. It’s chock full of polar bears with a few sled dogs at the end. You can click here to see it or look at the list of galleries on the Photo Galleries page. – Dave

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 […]

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

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 […]

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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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 […]

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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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 […]