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The Lost City Chronicle is our latest addition to Polar Bear Alley. Inspired by Churchill's remoteness and strangeness, it tells the stories of other remote destinations on our strange little planet. Currently, the Lost City Chronicle is a special feature in the Hudson Bay Post, Churchill's sort of monthly newspaper. This December, we hope to launch the Lost City Chronicle as its own newspaper.

The truth and gossip about Churchill's polar bears. Biology of western Hudson Bay bears, climate change stuff and polar bear photo gallery. Includes our famous Polar Bear Attack page!

Tourist's guide to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada includes hotels, tours, trip planning and some survival tips.

Churchill's monthly newspaper published occasionally. Churchill news, history, wildlife, poems and the ever popular BayLine Girl.

Inspired by Churchill, Lost City Chronicle is a collection of remote destinations and travel stories.

Glimpse into the future through the eyes of a gifted Siberian Husky.

Links to polar bear tours, polar bear sites, churchill links and stuff that polar bear alley thinks is neat.

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Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

Eight Degrees of Separation

A Polar Bear Ate My Pizoté

Antonio Pizote sifts through passion fruit and papaya, cast aside after one or two bites by sated and fickle spider monkeys. Antonio Pizote is, well, a pizote or coatimundi, kind of a Central American raccoon, a lone male searching and scavenging fruits and bugs under the hastening dusk.

He works methodically, groping the fruit, rolling it around in his racoon-like hands. He glances over at us, mildly annoyed that we are sharing this intimate, organic supermarket experience.

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Bloodvein River, Manitoba

The Kingfisher King

Chasing the Kingfisher From Canada to Chile

Blue feathers cap a seemingly oversized head. They meet a black beak too large to balance on such a small bird, let alone a jack pine branch already weighted down with cones. Belted Kingfishers perch alongside Manitoba’s Bloodvein River, one of Canada’s premiere wilderness whitewater paddles.

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Lago Puelo, Chilean Patagonia

Ulaa-Laa

Trip Journal from Chilean Patagonia

We had a shaky start to our trip. Our flight from Buenos Aires to San Carlos de Bariloche - Argentina’s version of Canmore, was, ummm..., bumpy, taking off in the last throes of a thunderstorm. It was a flight that we almost missed, nearly losing Kelsey’s passport to an overworked and lackadaisical agent inadvertently handing it back to a fellow Canadian - a Canadian who was heading to Antarctica that very moment. So, back on solid ground with passport once again in hand, we gladly followed the friendly man named Gustavo. He spoke English and promised us a ride to Lago Puelo, where a boat was waiting to take us to our destination, Ulaa Patagonia.

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Nunalla Trading Post, Border of Manitoba and Nunavut

Lords of Dogtown

Trip Journal: On the Hudson Bay Quest, Halfway to Nowhere

Its 6:30am and dog city is collapsing fast. Last night, twelve mushers arrived at Nunalla checkpoint for their mandatory six hour layover. Nunalla is an old Hudson’s Bay Company trading post, lying on the Manitoba/Nunavut border, one hundred miles from Arviat, Nunavut.

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