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t is in February of every year in the southern Serengeti that the wildebeests try to overwhelm the predators by calving in the tens of thousands. It is during this time that the predators have a feast, which you will see on this page. On this same trip we saw the gorillas in Rwanda on […]

First things first, and in this vast Arctic ice land, you need to look for polar bears continuously, and use any evidence of them, to help find them. The two main things are to look for seals resting on the ice, and then fresh polar bear tracks in the snow. Polar bears prefer to eat

The Arctic is a vast landscape, and polar bears are not inclined to pose for many pictures. This means that many photos need to be taken at a far distance. This scenario necessitates two things: Powerful telephoto lenses in the 600mm range (12x) with teleconverters to make them even more powerful. Anytime you use such

At the beginning and end of the trip we went through Churchill, Manitoba. It is quite an interesting place, and is visited by tourists from around the world hoping to get a good look at polar bears from a tundra buggy. Being shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of flunky tourists in a buggy is

We kept a close tab on one particular polar bear that had been resting on the ground for several days just outside of our camp. Some days he would be close, other days he would be 200 yards away from our camp. Our guides decided this one was approachable, and one day when he was

These are the migrating polar bears that took a special interest in us at camp, and walked by slowly keeping an eye on us, or came right up to the fence. There is a video at the end of this page where you can see how one of them uses his very keen sense of

Our transient neighbors would “visit” us at all hours. By visit I mean either walking by in a curious manner as they looked at us and tried to catch our scent, to bluntly coming up to the fence to investigate even more. When that happened our head guide Dave Gibbs was a there with one

Our Chef Of course food is important, so we cannot go any further showing polar bear photos without mentioning how great a chef “Meesh” was. Meesh cooking up another tasty meal for us We ate well as evidenced by this charcuterie board Great and fresh dinners Sticky toffee pudding for dessert! Meesh is also a

From California it takes several days to get to the Camp Gellini compound. A night  spent in Winnipeg, Manitoba is the first leg. The second leg goes to the Churchill airport, and then right on to the camp  Gellini for a 118 mile ride in a bush plane. The only access to camp is by

When tourists and wildlife photographers think of polar bears in Canada the first area that comes to mind is Churchill in Manitoba. They think of tundra buggies in the fall filled with tourists driving around seeing the bears as they are waiting for Hudson Bay to freeze. That was not what Dr. P’s trip was