Churchill - My Experience There - Thanks for the reminder Dani

[John Lane]

Awesome Dani!! Thanks for sharing with the great story line and pics. That brought back some great memories for me. I was lucky enough to go to Churchill back in 2001 during grad school to participate in a Canada Goose research project at Nestor One, which is a remote research camp out on the tundra from Churchill. What an experience. Best of my life. The most wonderful, enjoyable, stress free 3 weeks of my life. We were so remote that nothing else mattered, and there was not a single damn thing you could do about anything going on in the rest of the world or your life; so nothing else mattered but the here and now in this beaugtiful place. It was great!!

Thanks agin for the reminder Dani!!!!!!

I am planning to take my family to Churchill in the next couple of years - before it all changes!!!!

THis is the remote research camp..............

This is me working, you could not really call it that, more like living life..................

Enjoying the carefree life..................

we had ocassional visitors at camp...........

THe outhouse is located outside the compund......so you always took the toilet seat and a shotgun with you.............

The beauty of it all.................

 

[Dani]

John that looks like a lot quite a neat experience as well. Very neat to see the Polar Bears coming to say hello. Did you ever see any of the little cubs? Kevin works in the summers out in the NWR near Churchill which I believe Nestor One is on and he said it's about as remote as you can get but it's an amazing place to work. He works with the polar bear researchers typically though.

If you go up there, and want to do the winter/fall polar bear trip go in late october or early/mid November. You're pretty much guaranteed to see a bear. I'd like to go back because of the Belugas that come to Churchill. You can actually go snorkeling with them. I'd love to go do that.

 

[John Lane]

Hey Dani, thanks for the info! Could probably mix in a waterfowl hunt in mid-October. THe snorkeling with belugas would be very neat. I have seen polar bear cubs, but they were more like teenagers, not small.

Your post actually inspired me to contact the Nestor One Coordinator and catch up. I am hoping to make it back up there next year for banding operations!! Even if I have to pay my own way!!

Take Care!!

 

[Dani]

Oh maaaaaaaan that would be a helluva banding trip....love to do that.....good luck with that....

LOTS of ptarmigan there too if you're into upland hunting....

 

[tod osier]

Hey Dani, thanks for the info! Could probably mix in a waterfowl hunt in mid-October. THe snorkeling with belugas would be very neat. I have seen polar bear cubs, but they were more like teenagers, not small.

Your post actually inspired me to contact the Nestor One Coordinator and catch up. I am hoping to make it back up there next year for banding operations!! Even if I have to pay my own way!!

Take Care!!

Love the pics. The bear and fence ones gave me the willies.

That fence is strong, but yikes. I have the same fence as our deer fence (Baekert tight loc) and the individual wires are very, very strong hard high tensile steel, but the knots will slide under pressure. If a bear attacked it, I don't know if a Polar Bear couldn't get through it by sliding the knots and working a hole in it (unlikely but scares me). I've seen what happens when a deer hits it (not too bad) and when a tree falls on it (bad outcome for the fence), I'd expect a mad bear would be somewhere in between. For optimum strength the fence needs to be under high tension and that fence is not.