Polar Bear Viewing at Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge

Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge is located on the southern tip of Wapusk National Park, Churchill Manitoba. Cape Tatnum Wildlife Management Area is a remote stretch of Hudson Bay's coastline. The Canadian Wildlife Service, yearly studies this densely populated staging area. It is here that this population of polar bears lives and lazes the summer months away after they get off the ice flows on to the tidal flats. Some with a belly so full it drags on the ground.

"This is a one of a kind experience and is so different from the Churchill Tours"

Cape Tatnum is a natural haven for Polar Bears. The many raised beaches on the coast become a refuge from the summer heat. Polar Bears are often seen sleeping for many days in huge pits or wallows that they dig in the cool beach sand. This behavior is often seen from the lodge or from the viewing towers with your naked eye, as the lodge is only a few hundred meters from the coastline.

It is when the bears approach the 3 meter high security fence that the lodge gets most of it recognition as an eye to eye experience with the mighty Nanuk.

Polar bears are often seen walking the perimeter around the lodge fence. Some lay down to sleep while others continue to pace the 500 meters of high tensile wire fence. This of course is an unbelievable experience, leaving you with the impression you are at the zoo and "you" are the star exhibit.

The Experience

From July through August many sows with cubs are viewed, the ground is adrift with wild flowers and birds. Hundreds of Beluga Whales are seen on the water daily. Occasionally, huge flows of "pan ice" arrive on the water, scribing and reshaping the coast as they flow in then out with the tide. Polar bears, fresh from their icy winter play ground, now explore every inch of the coastline and find it lush green with a 6 inch mat of sedge grass. Polar Bears are often seen eating sedge for days and then sleeping for a week.

Mid-September through October is a Nature Photographers 'dream come true'. Fall colors turn from green to yellow and crimson red, the goose berries are ripe purple and hanging heavy on the vine, the cranberries are scarlet red and the sky is full of hundreds of thousand of migrating birds. Do not forget to add a few Polar bears and the spectacular evening show the 'Northern Lights' or 'Aurora borealis'.

Lodge Amenities

• Full service meals, with northern flare prepared from highly acclaimed "Blueberries and Polar Bears" cookbooks.
• Lodge owned and operated 12 passenger hovercraft.
• Electricity 8 hours per day.
• Natural gas and wood heat.
• Library with maps.
• Gift Shop.
• Satellite telephone.
• 8 foot high Buffalo Fence surrounding camp for security from bears.
• 7- 4x4 Honda ATV's and custom deluxe touring trailers with emphasis on comfort and safety.
• 2 way radio contact with Main Lodge.
• Unlimited sky line with no other lodge or tour operator within 100 miles.
• Unlimited access to coastline via ATV travel.
• Large numbers of Polar Bears in immediate area. High percentage of sows with cubs.