“Look! Over to the left!”

The excited voice of a traveller caught everyone’s attention! Thirty pairs of eyes looked out the windows to the left at the spectacle.

We were riding high above the ground on the famous Tundra Buggy, an oversized school bus painted polar white, sitting on a Monster truck frame with gigantic dump truck tires. Crawling slowly east of Churchill, next to the sand and pebble-covered shore of Hudson Bay, we had come upon a female polar bear, feeding on the remains of a black seal carcass. Nearby, her two small, one-year-old cubs playfully stumbled and rolled on the desolate and cold tundra. It was enthralling to watch this intimate family gathering!

The Buggy stayed motionless for an hour, as passengers quietly lowered their sliding windows, to observe and happily snap photos. Soon, the three bears moved off, and the big diesel engine roared back to life as we went exploring for more bears.

Find out what happens next, as Voyageurfred takes you on another fascinating quest, on a polar bear adventure! From the icy shores of Svalbard, Norway, to the flat, undulating tundra of forlorn and remote Hudson Bay, learn more about this fascinating apex predator - the King of the Arctic!

Created and produced by
Montreal adventure photographer and raconteur

Frederic Hore
Not to be missed!