Our accommodations were at the Northern Lights Inn. Our room had two double beds, a table with a flat screen TV on it, a night table between the beds, a dresser with a mirror and a small area with hangers. There really was not a lot of room to spread out but we managed. What I loved was being able to adjust the temperature in the room, something we had been unable to do at the Hotel Fort Garry in Winnipeg.

We went over (and through) some incredible landscape. Permits are required from the Canadian parks department for travel through this area. The company NatHab uses in Churchill, Great White Bear Tours, has permits that allow it to go the furthest out on the tundra than any of the other companies. We went on rocky roads, through water, up and down rutted ditches. The ride alone was an experience.

Mid morning we would stop at a good spot (read that as a place to watch bears) and have coffee and snack (brownies, cookies). At lunchtime we would stop at another ‘good spot’ and have a hot veggie soup, a choice of three sandwiches (one veggie, one usually chicken and one usually beef), a pasta or potato salad and dessert. Beverages were always available.
We were out on the tundra until about 4 p.m. when it was time to head back to the launch site. Then we climbed back onto the shuttle for our trip back to town. The trip back varied as we went in search of arctic fox or arctic hare, two animals we didn’t get to see. (However on our first night in town, J and I took a stroll and came across a blue fox.)
Dinner was a selection of soup or salad (again, nice fresh greens and other veggies), a choice of about 5 entrees offering fish, vegetarian, chicken, beef or pork served with vegetables, desert (every desert except one was carrot cake LOL) and beverages. We sat down to eat anywhere from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. depending upon what was scheduled.


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