We met our family at 5:00 am and walked over to the airport to check in.
We were informed that the plane would be delayed until noon. Yikes! A plane arrived at the gate, but there was no co-pilot, so further delays were announced. But somehow, one showed up, and this time we flew all the way to Churchill.
Tim was waiting for us with the Frontiers North shuttle bus. He toured us to various points of interest around town including a brief stop at the Polar Bear Holding Facility and Miss Piggy, a plane that had crash landed.
We proceeded to Sea North Tours dock, for the Beluga whale zodiac tour in the Churchill River estuary. But the wind and waves made it impossible to go out, so we postponed it and continued our tour about town and surrounding areas, stopping at the Itsanitaq Museum, one of Canada's finest collections of Inuit carvings and artifacts dating from pre-Dorset, Dorset, Thule, and modern Inuit times.
Later, we were thrilled to see a Pacific Loon on a nest, then a whole family of loons. We were even more thrilled to see our first Polar Bear napping on the rocks by the shore.
After dinner at the Ptarmigan restaurant, we toured the Polar Bear International House where we got to see a Tundra Buggy fitted out as a communications control room. We also had a short video and presentation about Polar Bear tracking and safety. https://polarbearsinternational.org/education-center/polar-bear-cams/
