You head out on the rover in the morning, and there's this almost burning anxiety amongst the group. And you could actually feel this like breath of people once they see that first polar bear. Of people just being like, oh, that's pretty amazing to see this. To be able to see that bear, it's unlike anything else. It's a I mean, it's my favorite way to see Churchill in polar bear season is to come out to the lodge because when you travel all of this way across the world to come to a place to view arctic wildlife, then it is really great to be in the habitats, like, out away from the town twenty four seven. Right? Then we we never know when the highlight moments are going to occur, but they could happen at any time of the day or night. It's a it's a very privileged thing that we do to be able to, like, come out here and see these these creatures that are so rare. Being out in the lodge allows you to have the the twenty four hour access to the tundra. I think it's really special to look around and be the only people out here for over ten miles. I think it's the full immersion trip. We're out here. Might see something while I'm brushing my teeth in the bathroom. I might have to wait till breakfast time. Maybe we have to go out exploring. For most of the people who come here, think it would be fair to say that this is a trip that they have waited for, looked forward to, sometimes for literally decades. But I find that very, very emotional moments, kind of pointing out on the horizon, like, look to the left, look here, look at this, like, this is where the bear is. And then all of a sudden, people find it. And it's like this kind of culmination of years of anticipation, like there is a boulevard. So when you see somebody who's literally with tears in their eyes looking at a bear in the distance, well, I get tears in their eyes too. Often when people come out here, it might not be a place that they would come to if it wasn't for the chance to see the wildlife that we have here. I love it when people come up to me, and normally at the later parts of the trip, and say, wow, I came here because I wanted to see a polar bear, and I've just seen so much that I didn't anticipate.
