Polar bear cuties. Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge. Steve Pressman photo. by George Williams Steve Pressman was hoping to see polar bear babies on his third polar bear safari with Churchill Wild. He got more than he bargained for. A wildlife trifecta! Pressman met with wolves on the second day of…
Guest Christoph Jansen of ArcticWild.net gets a front row seat to the wolf pack at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge. Adam Reimer photo. by Adam Reimer You never know what you're going to see at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge, no matter what the weather may bring. We headed out in the…
Wolves playing at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge. Alex Kirsonis photo. by Mike Reimer How do you follow up a perfect 10 in Aurora Borealis viewing on the Hudson Bay coast at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge? Well let’s bump that to a perfect 15 in wolf encounters! Though our wonderfully patient…
Cloud wolf at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge. Jad Davenport/ National Geographic photo. by George Williams Churchill Wild’s Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge is the best place on the planet to view and photograph wild wolves (and polar bears) and the whole world will soon know it. Last November, New York Times…
Churchill Wild Guests Participate in First Cloud Wolf Study by Jad Davenport, Churchill Wild Director of Wolf Programs “There’s a wolf following us.” I turned and Churchill Wild guide Jess pointed at a wolf trotting a hundred feet behind us. We were on a shakedown hike through the willows along…
Written by Jody Steeves If you haven’t stayed with us before at one of our lodges, we prepare for each excursion by scouting the landscape from the viewing tower. Checking the horizon from east to west, we look for animals on the beach ridges and tidal flats. On this particular…
Written by Mikayla Plett Patience Have you ever had an experience that felt like it was waiting for you - like different elements were just waiting patiently for you to be there before they collided? I had two of those moments within 24 hours! We staff learned very early on…
Places hold magic. Our lodges are no different, but it’s more than simply the lodge itself. It’s the blue shadows on the drifts as a wolf steals past Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge. It’s frozen bubbles beneath the lake at Dymond Lake Lodge or the rocky braided river that glistens at…
There’s a magical place in northern Canada, at the intersection of the southern Hudson Bay and the Boreal Forest, where polar bears and wolves cohabitate. This otherworldly location, also known as the Kaska Coast, is where our Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge is located. For 10 years, we’ve offered polar bear…
A Valentine’s kiss in the Arctic dusk. Jad Davenport photo. by Jad Davenport We had been out searching for polar bears all day and were about three minutes from the roaring fire and happy hour at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge when we spotted this pair of wolves asleep at the…