Old Pete. Seal River Heritage Lodge. Nate Luebbe photo. by Nate Luebbe, NateIntheWild I will never forget the first time I saw a wild polar bear. An absolutely ancient bear that the locals had dubbed “Old Pete.” Pete had already exceeded the average life expectancy for a polar bear by…
Layered up and ready for berry picking at Seal River! by Nicole Spinks, Churchill Wild Lodge Manager The intoxicating smell of fall envelops me as I step out of Seal River Heritage Lodge. The leaves are turning colour and starting to fall. The summer greenery is morphing into a bouquet…
Terry Elliott relaxing at Seal River Heritage Lodge. Christopher Scully photo. by Terry Elliott Two months have come and gone. Sixty-six days of solitude, of peace and silence. The plane comes in today with my replacements. Ben Lawrence and Nicole Spinks will spend the next two months keeping Seal River…
Visit with a polar bear. Dymond Lake Ecolodge. Debra Lynn Hartsell photo. by Vanessa Desorcy September 27 is World Tourism Day, an international day of recognition first established by the United Nations in 1970. The UN’s days, weeks, years, and even decades are established to create awareness for global issues,…
Polar bear walking in front of Seal River Heritage Lodge. Seal River Heritage Lodge by George Williams Seal River Heritage Lodge has been recognized with a 2020 Travellers’ Choice award from Tripadvisor.com for the fourth year in a row! Based on a full year of Tripadvisor reviews, prior to any changes…
Churchill Wild Guide Terry Elliot. Chris Murphy photo. by Terry Elliott My talkative friend. Going into my ninth week (55 days and counting!) of caretaking at Seal River Heritage Lodge (visit on Google Maps) and the only talking I do is with the Arctic hare that hangs out in the…
Polar bear in ice fog at Seal River Heritage Lodge. Rick Beldegreen photo. by Vanessa Desorcy Maybe seeing polar bears in Canada has been a dream of yours for a long time. Maybe you know someone who saw them and thought, “Hey, that’s pretty cool. I’d like to do that.”…
Polar bear at sunrise. Seal River Heritage Lodge. Ian Johnson photo by Ian Johnson, Ian Johnson Safaris & Photography Ian Johnson. Polar bear sunrise at 8 a.m. It’s November, guests are in Seal River Heritage Lodge having breakfast all nice and toasty. I’m all alone in the yard protected by…
Seal River Heritage Lodge managers Ben Lawrence and Nicole Spinks. Staff fish fry at North Knife Lake! by Nicole Spinks, Churchill Wild Lodge Manager It’s been a crazy start to the summer, but we’re certainly getting lots done! Normally, we would have just finished saying goodbye to the fishing guests…
https://youtu.be/PLvLTQe4wpE?rel=0 Churchill Wild specializes in ground-level walking tours through the polar bear inhabited regions of Arctic Canada. We own and operate the only permanent ecolodges on the Hudson Bay coast, which is home to the largest and most accessible polar bear population on the planet. We pioneered polar bear walking…