Polar bear capital: the Tundra

By Leslie Anthony
After a few days in Churchill, Manitoba and a two-hour, 20 km/h drive across half-frozen swamp in a “tundra buggy”—the all-terrain monster-truck-meets-bus invented by Leonard Smith in 1979—we arrive at Frontiers North’s Tundra Buggy Lodge for the main event of its annual Conservation Journey: three days of polar bear-viewing on the Hudson Bay coast, where the animals gather after a four month fast, awaiting freeze-up and a chance to hunt seals again. The lodge is a marvel of environment-adapted, DIY engineering comprising enchained high-end bunkhouses, lounge, wood-panelled dining car, kitchen, and staff quarters.…

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• Whistler News

December 8, 2019

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