by George Williams Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), which makes it a perfect time to celebrate the super women we have working at Churchill Wild. Women have always played a huge part in our success, and we’re proud to recognize these fabulous ladies (and the many more who work…
A nap in the flowers. Sharon Hirsch. by Vanessa Desorcy, Marketing Manager It’s International Polar Bear Day, and we’re celebrating by sharing some of our favourite polar bear photos. We chose these images based on the reactions they elicited the first time we saw them -- 'oohs’, ‘ahhs’, ‘awws!’ and…
Churchill Wild ecolodges. Before (bottom row) and after. L to R Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge, Seal River Heritage Lodge, Dymond Lake Ecolodge. by George Williams Building remote ecolodges in the north is a wilder kind of animal, as Doug Webber, Mike Reimer and Nolan Booth have discovered. Not only do…
Polar bear triplets at Seal River Heritage Lodge. Photo by Quent Plett. Photo and story by Quent Plett, Churchill Wild Polar Bear Guide This photo above was taken near Seal River Heritage Lodge in August of 2017 and marks only the second time in our history that we’ve seen polar…
Summer polar bears at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge. by George Williams If you want to see polar bears in the summer, we have to start early. There’s a lot of prep work to be done! Our preseason to-do list is long, detailed and designed with one goal in mind —…
Looking forward to the 2020 season at Churchill Wild! William McVean photo. By Vanessa Desorcy, Marketing Manager We have an amazing team of people working in our head office at Churchill Wild year-round and another team that run our ecolodges from July through November! (If you would like to work…
Christoph and Fabienne Jansen of ArcticWild.net at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge. Jad Davenport photo. by George Williams Christoph and Fabienne Jansen of ArcticWild.net are returning to the Churchill Wild ecolodges for their fourth and fifth visit this year and we're really looking forward to their stay! We first met the…
Polar bear hunting beluga whales in the Seal River. Quent Plett photo. by George Williams "As a wildlife film crew we’ve been all over the world, but rarely have we received a warmer welcome than at Seal River Lodge. No matter how odd our hours or challenging our request, nothing…
“She was telling everyone she met about Churchill Wild. She loved her trip with you guys!” ~ Tamara Soroka, Travel Manitoba Dynie Sanderson photographing a polar bear from the deck at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge. by George Williams NapaFoodGalTravels.com owner Dynie Sanderson was at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge last fall…
Young polar bear trackers at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge by Aoife O’Connell, age 12 (Note: Aoife was at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge for the Hudson Bay Odyssey in August 2019 with her mom Catherine, dad Michael and brother Lochlann.) The plane looked like something out of Indiana Jones: single propeller,…