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| Summer Wildlife & Culture - Baffin Island |
Designed for the individual amateur or professional naturalist who seeks to experience the Inuit life-style as it has developed over the last 3,000 years, experience firsthand viewing and photographing Arctic wildlife and birds, free of the minimal constraints associated with even small-group involvement. From the beginning, the flight over the steppes to southern Baffin Island’s Foxe Peninsula is spectacular and just the beginning of your immersion in an amazing landscape.
See the sunlight refracted through stranded pack ice in Cape Dorset, as it changes from aquamarine to a surreal pink in the warm light of evening. Watch icebergs resembling ships of the Great White Fleet drift around you as you see vistas only witnessed by true Arctic explorers. With your Inuit guide, stop at traditional camps and share hot tea and bannock with local Inuit who have returned to the summering ground of their elders, and where they observe the continuation of traditional carving and weaving crafts. Unhurriedly, observe and photograph a multitude of land and sea mammals including caribou, seals and walrus, as well as migratory birds.
Finally, enjoy a boat excursion to Qaummaarviit Historic Park, see the picturesque Sylvia Grinnell River rapids, and visit Iqaluit, Nunavut’s capital – all in a time frame of your choosing, as you set the agenda in this highly personal adventure.
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| DURATION: |
| 8 days/ 7 nights |
July & August, 2008
Trips depart weekly |
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| COST: |
| $5,265 (CND) pp, double occupancy, departing from Ottowa |
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