Nanuk Polar Bear Lodge - The Ground Tour Experience

Up close for those who wish to view Polar bears and other Arctic wildlife in their natural environment.

Coastal ground tours will provide you with a personal connection to the raw and natural oceans edge before you. An open concept of travel through this environment provides for equally interesting adventure, as we traverse 35 km of established trails with All-Terrain-Vehicles. With no other lodges on the coast within 150 km, and the sky line is unlimited. Strict protocol while traveling in this high density polar bears domain is applied/enforced.

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'.

This is the time of the year that you can witness the bears sparring, demonstrating their playful wrestling skills and establishing their own dominance. The scorch of summer is over and almost every beach has a bear waiting out the relatively mild fall condition. They are surviving mostly on sedge grass, along with the occasional beluga or bearded seal who lingered too long.

If you are lucky, at this location, you may witness a mother Polar Bear cast off her cub that has, over the past 2 1/2 years, become almost as big as its mother. At 400 pounds plus this event is often violent, lasting for days, and always ends with the cub making its own way.

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