Polar bear, Torngat Mountains September 02, 2010 
I’ve just returned from a remarkable trip to Labrador’s Torngat Mountains with Cruise North Expeditions. The weather was good, the scenery spectacular – including the highest mountains east of the Rockies, icebergs aplenty and abundant wildlife: polar bears, black bears, seals, minke whales, arctic hare and countless arctic char. I think I’ve now eaten arctic char in every possible way – raw, smoked, dried, fried and baked on an open fire. However, what set this trip apart from any other I’ve taken in Canada’s wilderness was the close interaction we had with our Inuit guides, especially Eli and Jacko Merkuratsuk, who introduced us to the land they know so well.
Polar bear numbers are increasing along the northern Labrador coast, and although I’d seen polar bears before in Churchill, Manitoba, it was a thrill to see them again along this rugged coastline, fat and healthy from a diet of seals and char. | |
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