Polar Bear Blog
As I start this blog, I am waiting for my first flight in
the Edmonton International airport. I just got word that United lost one of my
colleagues’ bags. Hopefully it will only be a couple of days late and he will
get it on the next train up to Wapusk National Park. Either that or we will be
sharing clothing and doing laundry every couple of days.
From what I have heard about this polar bear season, they
seem to be having a rough time. In the first 8 days they had only seen one mom
and baby. They saw them for five days. One day it was too cold to go out (-56
degrees with the wind chill) and one day they had a blizzard. The other day
they blanked. I haven’t heard what happened in the past week.
I am optimistic about our polar bear sightings as the weather
is supposed to warm up significantly by our first photography day. They are
calling for -20’s, which with wind chill should be in the -30’s range. That is
balmy considered to what we are used to. In the past four years I think I only
had one day that was in the -20’s. All the other days were in the high -30’s up
to -50 with the wind chill. I am hoping that the warmer weather will encourage
the moms and cubs to start moving. Just hopefully not all at once. Time will
tell.
The train was delayed for almost 4 hours so we got into the
lodge around 2a.m. The bad news is that the last group didn’t see anything in
the past seven days. The good news is that the den that they are on has a momma
bear and a single cub that came out of the den twice today. Looks like mom is
anxious to get the show on the road. Hopefully we will see them tomorrow.
I will try to update my blog daily so come back and see what
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Til’ tomorrow…
Greg
Have you ever photographed tigers in the wild?
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