Tuesday, August 2, 2023
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| Breakfast at Ptarmigan Restaurant |
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| Heading out on the Churchill River in Zodiacs (KSS) |
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Kent noticed some sodden sea
creatures in the boat - not! |
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| Delphinapterus leucas/Beluga Whales all around! |
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| And swimming under us! |
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Pete and Kent
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Listening to the belugas through a hydrophone
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Dylan in a prime location
at the back of the Zodiac (KSS) |
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| Tamiko (with a large purse under her rain jacket) (KSS) |
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| The whiter the beluga, the more mature it is |
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| Note the gray calf (Thank you, Mark!) |
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| The water was clear enough today to see them underwater |
The Zodiacs also took us out into Hudson Bay and into the new Canadian Territory of Nunavut. We went around a point to "see" a few polar bears on land. To see them properly, you needed binoculars. Perhaps later we can upload telephoto pictures from fellow adventurers.
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Yes! Ursus maritimus/Polar Bear on Eskimo Point
(Thank you, Angèle!) |
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| Polar bear hunkering down for a nap (by Angèle) |
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| Chroicocephalus philadelphia/Bonaparte's Gull (by Maggie?) |
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A row of sitting ducks: on the Zodiac tour we did see
Somateria mollissima/Eider Ducks on the Churchill River
(photo by Angèle on another day) |
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Bye bye, belugas!
Churchill is also the Beluga Capital of the World! |
Video by Maggie?
Next: Churchill II.
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