Polar bears at Churchill Manitoba – apologies to the photographer as I misplaced the link
Toronto. I hope you had a productive visit to our fabulous Estate Auction yesterday. Now take a breather before doing the October Fall Fair. The title of this post is the nickname for Churchill MB and also a series on APTN television and the Smithsonian channel of Youtube.
You may have been unaware that Churchill is on a migration path for poplar bears and as such is a mecca for wild life photographers (both professional and amateur) world wide who congregate in season to photograph these remarkable beasts.
A recent episode of Polar Bear Town covered California Wild Life photographer, Andrew Bazeley, as he and guide Dennis Compayre pursued a bear to get a rare over/under shot (a swimming bear taken with the camera partly submerged). The book linked to Dennis’s name discusses a bear called Dancer who appeared in an earlier episode on TV.
When I visited BC and Alberta a couple of decades ago, the rail spur up to Churchill was not open. The tundra holding the rails and ties was deemed too unstable and dangerous that summer. If you like Wild Life photography – or polar bears – be sure to view the clips on YouTube and track down the TV episodes shown currently on APTN.
