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Dance with Wolves
offered by supplier M08208 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 7
- 15
day(s)
Group Size: 4
- 16
people
Destination(s):
Nunavut
Specialty Categories:
Ecotourism
Photography and Videography
Season: July
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: Yes
Minimum Per Person Price: 4595 US Dollar (USD)
Maximum Per Person Price: 4595 US Dollar (USD)
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A choice of small-group, daily programs are offered for wildlife viewing, archaeology & aboriginal history.
Your Itinerary
Day 1:
We will meet all clients at the airport on arrival, and transport them to the floatplane base at the assigned departure time to board a charter floatplane for a 1.5 hour / 175 airmile charter flight to the remote tundra camp. Accommodation assignment (2 persons per 1/2 unit), followed by lunch served at the dining tent. Afternoon meeting and briefing with the trip leaders on-site, and then out onto the land for a afternoon hike and introduction interpretive. After dinner, wolf watching vigils commences in groups of four persons - late into the night (24 hour light).
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Day 2:
Each days activities are dictated by weather conditions, ice and wind, animal movements, and the specific interests of the clients themselves.
A choice of daily programs are offered - written on the chalkboard displayed outsite the dining tent each morning. Itineraries following are examples of activities - but may not necessarily occur in the order as presented.
Following breakfast, a replacement group will switch with the wolf watch vigil - ususally 3-4 persons maximum with a trip leader. Another group will head off on a day long interpretive hike into the sandy esker systems to explore the beautiful springtime tundra flower bloom, watch for wildlife, and locate active gyfalcon and merlin nests. Field lunches are served with all groups. Return to camp late afternoon for siestas and showers. Dinner served, followed by changing of the guard for the wolf watch vigil. Evening campfire and northern tales.
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Day 3:
During the week we will continually attempt to locate herds of wild musk-oxen. Once located, we will stalk to photograph these wild pre-histoic beasts. Return to the comforts of the camp for dinner and evening. Wolf watch continues! Evening campfire and northern tales.
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Day 4:
in a small gorup of 3-5 persons, we will embark by boat for a four mile ride down the lake to another sandy esker system for a interpretive guided walk to explore ancient archaeological sites, complete with tent-rings, and where stone arrowheads and spearpoints often litter the ground. We will have field lunch served, and then everyone can try a hand at catching a lake trout for our fresh fish dinner at camp! Wolf watch continues... Evening campfire and northern tales.
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Day 5:
We will embark with a small group for a full-day hike / canoe paddle / hike to visit a old abandoned turn-of-the-century Indian village and cabin ruins. Explorations along the way will visit a waterfall, check out another traditional wolf denning site, and beautiful esker secnery. field lunch, with dinner served back at camp. Wolf watch continues... evening campfire and northtern tales.
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Day 6:
Ice conditions permitting, we wil either boat or fly to another beautiful esker system 15 miles out
and check out another traditional wolf denning area. Here we will visit an old trappers site complete with sleds and tent frames. Field lunch, fishing (optional), dinner back at camp - as wolf watch continues, a interpretive slide show by the resident biologist is offered in the camp library. Evening campfire and northern tales.
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Day 7:
On the final full field day, particpants will have a choice to pick their own acitivy, or to get set out by boat and spend a day to themselves to explore the tundra in their special own way, and apply what they have learned during the week. Guided programs also offered. Special evening campfire and northern tales. Wolf watch - last night!
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Day 8:
Following breakfast, we will offer the closing interpretive walk, and then pack up to leave for civilzation. Afternoon charter flight returns clients back to town, where all ground transfers are included.
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Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Also see tour packages in:
Canada
Nunavut
Ecotourism
Photography and Videography
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