Polar bear in red. Sarah Skinner photo. by George Williams The day Sarah Skinner handed in her resignation, her husband had one piece of advice waiting for her at home. "I followed you on social media for years, and kind of had the one day, one day, one day," said…
Mom and cubs walking along the shoreline at Seal River Heritage Lodge. Phil Davis photo. August ran hot, then cool, then wild in every direction. Between Seal River Heritage Lodge and Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge, guests logged polar bears in double digits, thousands of belugas, wolf tracks, caribou in full…
Rare shot of a polar bear mother and cub with a caribou in the background. Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge. Jesus Martinez photo. Jesus Martinez came to Hudson Bay with a job to do, and it was not sightseeing. He runs Dream Destinations Mexico, a travel company with 45 people on…
Charles Glatzer. by George Williams A boy is standing at the window of the lodge, watching for bears. A man kneels down on the floor beside him, hands him a camera worth $20,000, and shows him how to press the shutter. That is the memory Mike and Jeanne Reimer both come…
Jen Arnold created a miniature of Seal River Heritage Lodge as part of the Churchill Wild diorama, then lived in it on the Birds, Bears & Belugas safari. by George Williams For five days this summer, Jen Arnold stood on the tundra at Seal River Heritage Lodge, 60 km north…
by George Williams Doug Webber had his nose down in a berry patch at Seal River Heritage Lodge last fall when he heard the hiss. He was out along the road toward Landing Lake with a shotgun and scare cartridges beside him and a gallon bucket already full of cranberries.…
Compare me with Everest. Dymond Lake Ecolodge by Robert Postma photo. by George Williams Here is a number that surprises almost everyone. Roughly 7,500 people have ever stood on the summit of Mount Everest. Not in a season. In all of recorded history, from the first ascent in 1953 to…
Josh Caspers and Carolyn Hanson on their Arctic Discovery at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge. by George Williams (Photos courtesy of guests Josh Caspers and Carolyn Hanson) Josh Caspers has a rule about tattoos. He only gets them for places that mark him. A Balinese dragon after Bali. A revolutionary artist's…
Summer polar bear photography. Seal River Heritage Lodge. Jad Davenport photo. by George Williams How do you convince someone that you walk with polar bears, and make it believable, in ten minutes? That was the challenge in Toronto this spring. Churchill Wild VP of Business Development Jackie Storry, Marketing Manager…
Scarbrow. Kind eyes. Nolan Plew photo. by George Williams Father's Day is about strength, endurance, and looking out for your own. With male polar bears, the first two attributes are critical, and we see those qualities every season in the big male polar bears near our ecolodges on the Hudson…