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

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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.