Next week Bill will tell us about journeying to the most northern point in Ontario, but this week it is all about a polar bear encounter en route
Sometimes they are also part of one of those life experiences which make you stop and think about the journey. In this case, the journey north.
With Brian Emblin from Timmins, we have to travel another150 km up the Hudson Bay coast where the consumer-grade satellite imagery and topographic maps are poor. There are countless rills to ford and at least four larger rivers with tidal estuaries and mud flats, and we are in polar bear country. In anticipation, we hope to see at least one.
Like humans, polar bears sleep an average of seven to eight hours a day. They also frequently nap to conserve energy. En route we saw many pits dug by the bears in the deeper beach heads so they could sleep with their backs to the wind. Looking at the clarity of the polar bear photos during some of the photo ops I was close enough, about 40m in some cases. The ATVs were always running and headed in a retreat direction…away.
From the camera properties, I know the incident happened after 3 a.m. The first startling “BANG” that awoke me was the thought that Brian had either fallen out of the top bunk above me or had given the wall a good kick from within a dream state. As it turned out, the bear was in a blind spot behind and close to the quads munching on the birds. The bear immediately wheeled around the ATVs and turned towards George.
Hunters in this Cree community do not shoot polar bears. This is a very small quota but as George explains, “The meat is not so tasty,” and taxidermist rug mounting is cost-prohibitive. So, it is one reason we see many bears over a 100 km stretch.
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