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Big Animals Expedition, Canada, High Arctic

Narwhal - Big Animals Expedition
experience	9 years
where	High Arctic, Canada
availability	4 guests
departure	June 14 - 28, 2013
duration	14 days
pricing	$16,900 per person
facility	ice camping
activities	snorkeling, diving, snow mobile

Free diving, ice camping, and wildlife photography in the Canadian High Arctic

ON THIS EXPEDITION, we'll experience spring as only the arctic can provide it. Warming days of 18-hour light. Winter ice melting into fantastical shapes. An explosion of new life all around us. Whales surfacing in the bays, blowing out sprays of seawater. Seals sleeping in the sun, slipping between floe and water, poking noses through cracks in the ice. And polar bear mothers with cubs, famished from their long winter.

We partner with the best operator in the arctic, Polar Sea Adventures. Their long experience in the region and their commitment to excellence in everything they do make them a natural fit with Big Animals Expeditions. With expert Inuit hunters as our local guides and support team, Amos leads a maximum of four guests on the photographic journey of a lifetime (assuming you're not a staff photographer for the BBC or National Geographic - we lead their expeditions, too).

General Itinerary

Day 1: DEPART your home city and fly to Ottawa. Stay overnight at the hotel of your choice.

Day 2: Take our First Air flight from Ottawa to Pond Inlet. Upon arrival, we'll proceed to our Pond Inlet hotel to prepare our gear, cameras, and clothing for the expedition.

Day 3 - 13: Begin our photo "hunting" program for the next 11 days. We will be picked up as soon as we finish loading all our gear on the three snowmobiles. Weather permitting, we'll head for our first camp, 30 - 60 miles from the village, out onto an ice floe known for its concentration of polar bear dens.

The days will be dedicated to searching for polar bears. Just like other wildlife, polar bears are most active at sunrise and sunset, and sleep during the 'heat' of midday (if you can call that heat).

We expect to encounter the following wildlife: polar bears with cubs, various whales, harp seals, and ring seals.

Day 14: We strike our mobile camp, pack our gear, and head back, happy and tired, to civilization. We stay in our Pond Inlet hotel for our last night in the arctic.

Day 15: DEPART Pond Inlet on First Air to Ottawa. Depending on your connecting flight, you may need to stay overnight in Ottawa.

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Tour price includes:

• Thirteen nights accommodations including all meals
• Eleven (11) days of on-the-ice activities
• All transfers, in accordance with group activities
• Two nights in Pond Inlet hotel
• Photography seminar/photo coaching by Amos Nachoum
• Only four guests

Not included in tour price:

• Airfare to and from Ottawa
• Roundtrip airfare between Ottawa Pond Inlet (approx. $2200)
• Overweight luggage or excess baggage
• Hotel charges in Ottawa, Day 1 and day 15
• Meals which aren't specified
• Personal charges such as laundry, bar, and telecommunication charges
• Insurance - we strongly recommend you buy your own travel, health, and diving insurance
• Loss of dive gear and equipment
• Gratuities

For more information
Contact:
Dive Discovery
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1 800 886-7321
(415) 444-5100
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