Have you ever had a polar bear join you for lunch? We have – on a regular basis. They also come for breakfast and dinner. At Churchill Wild’s Seal River Lodge both the guests and the polar bears come for the food.
Polar bear eats Caribou sandwiches and chicken soup for lunch at Seal River
Have you ever had a polar bear join you for lunch? We have – on a regular basis. They also come for breakfast and dinner. At Churchill Wild’s Seal River Lodge both the guests and the polar bears come for the food.
At some point during your stay it is quite common to have a bear join you for a meal. The bears just always seem to know when meal time is at the lodge. They show up and walk by the window in the dining room as the guests are sitting down to eat. They then always seem to wander off to the far side of the lodge, taking the guests out of the dining room with cameras in hand to chase them from window to window.
But what happens when a Great Ice Bear decides to join you for your picnic lunch? Â We had that happen one week when the guests were out on a 6-wheeler trip at the mouth of the Seal River. Luckily the guests had already eaten, and had left the 6-wheelers for a bit of a hike.
When they returned a couple hours later, they witnessed a young polar bear munching down on their leftover Caribou sandwiches and chicken noodle soup. As you can tell from the photo, the cooler was ripped apart, and later became a tool bin in the garage. The soup container had some new scratches on it, and the latch was broken, but it was quickly replaced the next day.
What the polar bear left for the cleaning staff
Our two guides did an excellent job of chasing the bear away, but not before the guests got a few shots in with their cameras. Once the bear was gone, a quick clean up was done, and everyone returned to the lodge, happy that the polar bear hadn’t come along before they ate lunch.
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