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Say the words “American West” and right away you imagine vast, open plains, deep canyons and starting over. What is it about going West that has always meant hope in the American psyche, as if a new beginning could be had just by heading in a certain compass direction?
When you first start exploring beyond your home ground, you tend to see everything in relation to where you live: what’s different, what’s similar, what’s unheard of and what’s exactly the same. I suppose it’s our way of getting a grip on new surroundings and beginning to have them make sense.
This Travel Tale comes to us from Wendy Klausner, Senior Adventure Specialist at Nat Hab. I have been planning trips to Africa for almost 20 years.
Dear Traveler, Each and every fall, as a cold snap in the air crosses North America, I pack my warm boots and parka and head northward, returning to one of Nat Hab’s most important locations—Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, where polar bears wait for winter’s freeze to start their hunting season.
There are a few rare places in the world where time as a linear construct just doesn’t seem to make much sense; places where the past, present and even the future seem to be all jumbled together, like pack ice piled up along a shoreline.
When WWF Partner in Conservation Elizabeth Bullitt retired, she decided she was going to see the world’s wild places. Her first trip was a journey to Botswana in Africa. She’s since taken two more trips with WWF and Natural Habitat Adventures—to Antarctica and, this past summer, to the Arctic.
Seeing the polar bears is a magical experience that prompts joy, awe, and sometimes even poetry! On a recent Tundra Lodge & Town Adventure to experience the polar bears in Churchill, talented guest Cindy Tether wrote a beautiful poem describing her unforgettable vacation!
Running 250 miles down the British Columbia, Canada, coast, the Great Bear Rain Forest is a wild expanse of western cedars, hemlocks and spruce trees. This 21 million-acre area—whose boundaries have never been precisely defined—is the largest coastal temperate rain forest on Earth.
“I love their eyes,” said Gavin Lautenbach, Natural Habitat Adventures guide. “To capture a photograph of any cat in the wild, it’s about their eyes. I love their power and their strength. I love their relationships with their cubs and with other cats. I love their speed, power, precision and playfulness.”
Our Churchill Polar Bear tour season officially kicked off this past weekend, and we couldn’t be more excited here at Natural Habitat Adventures! Meet one of our veteran polar bear guides, Sandra Elvin, and learn how she fell in love with the natural world.
If, like me, you like to travel, there’s probably one particular place away from home that just seems to stick in your heart and head—the one spot where your wanderlust was first awakened.
Croc ahead! Our front boatman named C-Company signaled by pointing to the left riverbank – and a few of the paddlers up front noticed a long, black form slither quickly into the Okavango River. We immediately formed a single tight row of yellow kayaks behind our guide and sped past the beast’s entry site.
