Arctic Adventure Travel Blog

Cedar Planked Trout with Balsamic Reduction Sauce

Cedar Planked Trout with Balsamic Reduction Sauce Ingredients 1 Cedar plank 1 or 2 2 lb. (1 kg) lake trout fillets Salt and Dymond Lake Seasoning (*DLS) to taste Directions Soak an untreated cedar plank in water for 24 hours. Remove the plank from the water and lay the trout fillets on the plank. [...]

The Bear Grounds – A Travel Writer’s View of Seal River Lodge

Guest Post by Fiona Harper Note: This article originally appeared in International Traveller Magazine and is reprinted here courtesy of author, travel writer and photographer Fiona Harper, who was a recent visitor to Churchill Wild’s Seal River Heritage Lodge. You can read more about Fiona at her Web site, view all of her travel photos [...]

Polar Bear Photo Safari at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge

Dennis Fast is hosting our first ever Polar Bear Photo Safari at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge. This one week departure takes place August 26-September 1, 2012 on the coast of Hudson Bay in the Cape Tatnum Wildlife Management area. Dennis’ work can be seen all over our website and promotional materials. He has been working [...]

Polar bear looking for Cranberry Cake. With Butter Sauce.

This cool polar bear photo was taken by Julie Thompson at Seal River Heritage Lodge and it was attracting all kinds of attention on the Churchill Wild Facebook Page. It was suggested that the bear smelled the Cranberry Cake with Butter Sauce, a Lodge favorite from our Blueberries and Polar Bears Cookbooks. Hmm… well… it [...]

Churchill Wild enhances environmental stewardship programs with installation of VBINE Vertical Access Wind Turbines at northern eco-lodges

Churchill Wild has always been devoted to minimizing their environmental footprint at their remote northern eco-lodges. Now they’re enhancing their environmental stewardship programs even further with the installation of Vertical Access Wind Turbines (VAWTs) manufactured by VBINE ENERGY in Winkler, Manitoba. The combined power generated by the VAWTs and the solar panels currently in place [...]

Polar Bear Photo Safari guests perform role reversal, show me around London!

by Doreen Booth, Churchill Wild Adventure Specialist This past November, I was at our Seal River Heritage Lodge for the last departure of the Polar Bear Photo Safari. While at the Lodge, I had the opportunity to visit with Clare and Andy Coleman, two guests who were up for their second trip with us. I [...]

A Seal River Beluga (and Polar Bear) Experience

The following account was originally published on Ebushpilot.com back in 2006. The original story and pictures, written by John S. Goulet, can be found here. The Seal River Heritage Lodge Pancake Breakfast Klaus and I have finally made it. We are greeted to the Lodge by hosts Mike and Jennie Reimer. August is the prime of [...]

Churchill Wild polar bears to appear on CBC’s The Nature of Things in Polar Bears: A Summer Odyssey

“Filming in 3D was much more work,” said Ravetch. “But we wanted immersive images so the audience could experience what it’s really like to be up close at ground level with polar bears. It required multiple cameras operating at the same time to produce the special 3D effects and three of us including Stereographer Indy [...]

Summer Polar Bear Photo Safari at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge New for 2012! Limited availability Aug. 26 to Sept. 1.

Churchill Wild will host the world’s first ever Summer Polar Bear Photo Safari at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge in 2012, offering photographers rare on-the-ground polar bear access and exceptional photo opportunities unavailable anywhere else on the planet. The new Summer Polar Bear Photo Safari represents an expansion on the success of Churchill Wild’s Polar Bear [...]

Polar bears prove “fridge photographer” wrong at Seal River

Special to Churchill Wild by +George Williams Carol Moffatt describes herself as a “fridge photographer”. Churchill Wild begs to differ. The 47-year-old Reeve at the Municipality of Algonguin Highlands downplayed the fact that she took some fabulous shots of polar bears, landscapes and northern lights while attending our Polar Bear Photo Safari last October [...]

Arctic fox steals the show on sunny day at Seal River

by Churchill Wild Guide Terry Elliot People come to Seal River Heritage Lodge to see the polar bears, but on this occasion the arctic fox obviously stole the show! Vulpes Lagopus has cyclical population numbers. More prey equals more foxes, and we were seeing lots of lemmings all summer so this was obviously good for [...]

Dennis Fast: Chief in-house Photographer and Guide at Churchill Wild

Dennis Fast is the chief in-house photographer at Churchill Wild and one of Manitoba’s best known photographers. His photos have appeared in many calendars and books, including the award-winning bestseller Pelicans to Polar Bears, a Manitoba wildlife viewing guide. He has had major contributions to many books since then, with Wapusk: White Bear of the [...]

For the Love of Reading: Polar bear trip results in children’s books for New Jersey physician turned photographer

Special to Churchill Wild by +George Williams It’s unlikely physician Daniel D’Auria thought his photography hobby would turn him into an author, but that’s exactly what happened after his Polar Bear Photo Safari with Churchill Wild. The 54-year-old from Tabernacle, New Jersey, has now created three children’s books about polar bears, each featuring a selection [...]

Arctic Freeze: Minus 55 in Churchill Manitoba

Today on the drive into work the weather guy on CBC was raving about the low, low temperature we are about to endure. Environment Canada is forecasting -37° C. Add to that the blowing wind (wind chill factor) and it is the equivalent of MINUS 55! BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! We always say ‘Churchill Wild: Touch the Arctic!” – today [...]

Polar Bears in the News: The Polar Bear Club

So often news stories involving polar bears consist of experts predicting the end of our beloved polar bear. Doom & gloom is effective in an awareness campaign but never fun to hear about. So how about some positive news from waaaay up north? Well… positive for polar bears and possibly ice caps (not to be [...]

Hudson Bay helicopter ride a first for Churchill adventure travel specialist

by Doreen Booth, Adventure Travel Specialist, Churchill Wild This year I finally had the opportunity to join a group of our winter guests at Seal River Heritage Lodge. I was able to squeeze in on our last trip of the season – the Polar Bear Photo Safari! I had a couple of guests, Julie and [...]

Exceptional guides critical to success of ground-level polar bear photography workshops on Hudson Bay coast

You just can’t take spectacular photos of polar bears without having excellent guides to watch your back. That’s according to professional photographer Bob Smith of Elk Meadow Images, who organized a photography workshop for 14 people this fall at Seal River Heritage Lodge. Smith’s group were taking part in Churchill Wild’s annual Polar Bear Photo [...]

“I don’t think there is a better place in the world to observe and photograph polar bears.” — Joel D. Davidson

I don’t think there is a better place in the world to observe and photograph polar bears. — Joel D. Davidson, Photographer Joel Davidson was at Seal River Heritage Lodge in early November for Churchill Wild’s Polar Bear Photo Safari, which takes place when the polar bears congregate in large numbers on the coast of [...]

Reach for the Rainbow polar bear trip draws rave reviews. Churchill Wild donates Birds, Bears and Belugas Adventure for 25th Annual Crystal Ball.

Special to Churchill Wild by +George Williams Nicole Leaper surprised her husband Bob on his 60th birthday last year by giving him a Churchill Wild Polar Bear Photo Safari in a blog post. Nicole had won the trip in a Reach for the Rainbow live charity auction at that organization’s annual Crystal Ball, proceeds of [...]

World’s largest land carnivore gets right of way as fall polar bear season begins

by Andy MacPherson The start of a new fall polar bear season! The Turbo Beaver being busy down south, our first group of guests arrived in style in a helicopter, landing right at our front door. After settling into their rooms and taking in a brief safety orientation, we had them out viewing polar bears [...]