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We also saw several arctic foxes
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We stayed in a strange hostel on wheels called the Tundra Buggy Lodge right out on the edge of the bay!
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We were there for three days and saw between 12 and 30 bears per day!
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We also spent a bit of time in the town of Churchill and in Winnepeg. My impression of Manitoba is that it is caught in a time warp. It's still 1977 there. Three or four locals actually said "right on!" to me without any trace of irony.
5 comments:
Interesting, despite living in Saskatchewan for most of my life, I've never been to Churchill. And I doubt I'll ever go. And while it's possible elsewhere in the province, I'd have to disagree that Winnipeg is stuck in the 70s. It's a decent town, that's perhaps only a decade behind.
The "lodge" looks a wee-bit frightening...
In Minnesota, they have the legend of the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his blue ox named Babe. During a trip to a forest near Winnipeg, I concluded that Paul Bunyan was just a regular-sized dude who lived where the trees are kept short by a brief growing season.
@RS Porter. you can be decent and still stuck in the 70's, but I admit my observation is more about Churchill and the sticks.
@Anon: if you think it is scary from the outside, you should see the inside.
@Barry: The trees up where we were were tiny and only had branches on one side. "Flag" trees!
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