Bluesky Expeditions & Bluesky Bed & Sled-Churchill, Manitoba
Join Gerald and Jenafor Azure alongside their sled dogs as you capture the Spirit of the North in Churchill, Manitoba...the Polar Bear and Beluga Whale capital of the world.
Their sled dogs and unique Bed & Breakfast have been featured in various media forms around the world,
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This documentary series features a funny, unassuming, urban-Aboriginal host, Don Kelly, on exploratory journeys to discover his traditional native roots. Don and Dawn join Gerald Azure, an experienced Canadian Ranger and Métis, of Bluesky Expeditions in Churchill in northern Manitoba near the coast of Hudson Bay
Dog sledding in the Arctic at Churchill Manitoba, Canada #1 of 2
On my return trip from an amazing adventure north to Seal River, to photograph Polar Bears and other wildlife, I stopped over at Churchill Manitoba to try out dog sledding. It was definitely a first time for me, and a very worth while experience!.
I had the good fortune to meet up with a local legend: Gerald Azure and his Bluesky Expeditions.
An excerpt from his Web-site: Gerald Azure is the owner/operator of Bluesky Expeditions. Born and raised in the Northern Métis Community of Cormorant, Manitoba. He is the youngest of 10 children. His parents earned their living commercial trapping and fishing, and used sled dogs as their primary form of transportation until the early 1970's when ski-doing came into being.
Gerald started our run, but soon offered me the sled to drive; I was surprised but didn't hesitate to accept!! It's hard for me to put into words what it's like to be in the Arctic and experience what so many people have done for so long as their only means of long range transportation. The dogs are amazingly powerful.. and truly seem to love their work!
An experience I will forever remember!
Churchill Manitoba, Canada
*Apologies - this is only my second time using my GoPro !!
Dog sledding in Churchill
Sled dogs are happy dogs. Watch these pups jump and bark with excitement as they get hitched up for an afternoon of sledding in northern Manitoba.
Filmed February 2013 at Blue Sky Expeditions -
Dog Sledding, at Blue Sky, Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, November 2013
Dog Sledding, at Blue Sky, Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, November 2013
Dog Sledding Big Sky 2-2015
Spirit of the North Dog Sled Adventures from Big Sky Resort.
Northern Lights Season in Churchill, Manitoba
Experience the brilliance of Northern Lights season in Churchill, Manitoba. There's no better time than now to start planning your Churchill experience this winter.
Bluesky Unfurgettable Dogsledding Adventure at Asessippi - 2016
If you’re looking for an adrenaline rush and heart thumping experience...consider taking a drive out to Asessippi Ski Resort for
dog sledding experience that I guarantee will leave you breathless!
Gerald Azure of Bluesky expeditions took me on a ride that I will remember for a very long time. That ride rivalled any of the Red River Ex rides that I experienced ...hands down! I hope that this video will give you a sense of this thrilling experience.
Dog sledding in the Arctic at Churchill Manitoba, Canada #2 of 2
On my return trip from an amazing adventure north to Seal River, to photograph Polar Bears and other wildlife, I stopped over at Churchill Manitoba to try out dog sledding. It was definitely a first time for me, and a very worth while experience!.
I had the good fortune to meet up with a local legend: Gerald Azure and his Bluesky Expeditions.
An excerpt from his Web-site: Gerald Azure is the owner/operator of Bluesky Expeditions. Born and raised in the Northern Métis Community of Cormorant, Manitoba. He is the youngest of 10 children. His parents earned their living commercial trapping and fishing, and used sled dogs as their primary form of transportation until the early 1970's when ski-doing came into being.
Gerald started our run, but soon offered me the sled to drive; I was surprised but didn't hesitate to accept!! It's hard for me to put into words what it's like to be in the Arctic and experience what so many people have done for so long as their only means of long range transportation. The dogs are amazingly powerful.. and truly seem to love their work!
An experience I will forever remember!
Churchill Manitoba, Canada
*Apologies - this is only my second time using my GoPro !!
On board! Bluesky Mush Churchill 2016
Polar Bear Hotel
The Tundra Lodge Rolling Hotel
-The Tundra Lodge Rolling Hotel is a unique hotel that allows one to view polars bears in the wild at very close distance
-The hotel is not too far from Churchill, Manitoba which is the polar bear capital of the world
-Every fall the tundra lodge is constructed and placed in a specific spot that guts into the hudson’s bay that is known for high polar bear density
-There are around 800 polar bears in the region which come down the Hudson’s Bay on blocks of ice that are being blown by the prevailing winds from the north
-Those blocks of ice will eventually hit land on the southern shore of the hudson’s bay right around Churchill
-The polar bears at this point are all fattened up from hunting seals all winter long.
-The bears wait at the shore around Churchill until November when the ice gets cold and the ice begins to freeze again. Seawater has a lower freezing point than freshwater, so the bears wait around the Hudson Bay coastline near Churchill because the churchill river runs north into the hudson bay. That fresh water will freeze first creating a new hunting raft for the polar bears
-Now how the Rolling Lodge works is you would fly to Winnipeg, Manitoba where the staff of the Rolling hotel is located. They equip you with a parka and boots and take you onto the a private jet that flies to Churchill
-Once arrived a polar rover will take guests to the rolling hotel
-The rolling lodge was constructed by a local resident of churchill, Don Wachowski
-There are different train car buggies with different functions
-These train car buggies are not actually a train, but more like conga line of busses that are attached
-The first buggy is for staff, it’s their living, sleeping, relaxing quarters
-Buggy 2 has a full kitchen and mess hall with master chef Toby. The remaining 2/3rds of space in this car is filled with tables and chairs for meals.
-between the different buggies is a caged in viewing area that is open to the outdoors that gives a great view of the polar bears
-The 3rd car is filled with seats and a drink station
-4th and 5th buggy cars have 4 showers each flush toilets, and 32 bunk beds attached to the hallway.
-This is where adventurers that want to see the polar bears stay.
-The polar bears can be viewed from windows throughout the tundra lodge
-The buggie is high enough off the ground that the polar bears can’t actually attack a person
-It’s even possible to view the polar bears from your bed in your sleeping cabin
-A tundra rover is kept at the lodge at all times which goes out during the day for Northern Safaris looking at different polar bears doing polar bear things
-Polar bears are very solitary creatures but during November and December around Churchill is one of the only times and places on the planet where polar bears are forced into a small area as they wait for the ice to freeze over. The result is that guests can potentially see young bears playing with each other which they would never otherwise do.
-The amount of bears around the lodge can vary from 1 to 20 polar bears
-This tundra hotel isn’t just for great bear sight seeing, the northern lights light up the sky, when there aren’t clouds of course as well as an incredible sunset.
-Other creatures that can be seen are arctic hare, arctic fox, snowy owls, and willow ptarmigan
-If this is a trip you’re interested in, you might want to book it sooner than later. Every year the earth is getting warmer and polar bear numbers are dropping as the ice melts.
-A 6 or 7 day stay in the rolling hotel will cost around $7000 or $1000 a night. While that might seem expensive, where else can you sleep with wild polar bears walking around you?
Photo Credits:
Henry H Holdsworth: Bear nose, Bear with rover, Mother & cubs
Michael Poliza: Mother walking with cubs
Brad Jospehs: Snowy owl, Sunset bear
Sara Higgins: Woman & bear
Colin McNulty: Mother & cub on tundra, Tundra Lodge
Erik Rock: Northern lights, sparring bears
Michael Poliza: Mother & cubs walking
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Polar Bears wrestling in Churchill MB Canada. November 2011. Taken from our Great White Bear Tours Rover on a Natural Habitat Adventure nathab.com with guide Justin Gibson justinrgibson.com
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Nat Hab Tourists Go Crazy Seeing Aurora Borealis for First Time!
A group of travelers journeyed to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada to view the Northern Lights last week with Natural Habitat Adventures, and boy did they get a show! They completely lost their minds when they first saw the aurora borealis, as a stunning light display developed overhead while they traveled outside of town in a bus. Luckily, their guide Brad Josephs caught the excitement on tape. Listen to their hilarious reactions. Priceless!
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Video and photos by Natural Habitat Expedition Leader Brad Josephs.
Sled rides at Blue Sky
Churchill, Manitoba - Sled rides with Gerald and Jenafor of Blue Sky Bed and Sled
A Priest in the North
Tony was privileged to spend an afternoon with Bluesky Expeditions, traveling forest trails by dog sled. An unforgettable day, thanks to Gerald and Jenafor Azure of Bluesky.
For an account of this adventure, see:
Terrifying and Controversial Mystery of Lake Anjikuni | Canada’s Most Remarkable Unsolved Mystery
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Angikuni Lake (variant: Lake Anjikuni) is a lake in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is one of several lakes located along the Kazan River; Ennadai Lake is to the south and Yathkyed Lake is to the north.
The lake's shore is notable for rocky outcroppings of the Precambrian Shield, being part of the Hearne Domain, Western Churchill province of the Churchill Craton.
During his 1948 trip, Canadian explorer Farley Mowat arrived at Angikuni Lake, then part of the Northwest Territories, and found a cairn constructed in a fashion not normally used by area Inuit. It contained pieces of a hardwood flattened box with dovetailed corners. Mowat, knowing that only one other European explorer, Samuel Hearne, had been in this region previously (in 1770), speculated that the monument was built by Francis Crozier, who, as a member of the lost expedition originally led by Sir John Franklin, vanished in 1848 during the ill-fated search for the Northwest Passage.
In 1930, a newsman in The Pas, Manitoba reported on a small Inuit village right off of Lake Angikuni. The village had always welcomed the fur trappers who passed through occasionally. But in 1930 Joe Labelle, a fur trapper well known in the village, found that all the villagers had gone. He found unfinished shirts that still had needles in them and food hanging over fire pits and therefore concluded that the villagers had left suddenly. Even more disturbing, he found seven sled dogs dead from starvation and a grave that had been dug up. Labelle knew that an animal could not have been responsible because the stones circling the grave were undisturbed. He reported this to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Kelleher refers to them using the anachronism North-West Mounted Police), who conducted a search for the missing people; no one was ever found.
Such is the story as it appears in Frank Edwards's 1959 book Stranger than Science; other versions appear in Whitley Strieber's science fiction novel Majestic and Dean Koontz's horror novel Phantoms. The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries (presented as fact) has an even more detailed version, as do other websites and books, adding other standard details such as mysterious lights in the sky, empty graveyards, and over a thousand people missing. A reprint of the story is found in the November 27, 1930 Danville Bee, written by journalist Emmett E. Kelleher. That article states that Joe Labelle found an empty Eskimo camp with 6 tents and that 25 men, women and children had vanished.
After the article was reported in Canadian newspapers, the RCMP received inquiries. In January 1931, Sergeant J. Nelson, stationed in The Pas, filed an internal report that was released to the public. Nelson wrote he could find no foundation for this story. Nelson reported that Joe Labelle, the informant, had taken out his first trapping license that season and questioned whether he had been in the territories previously as stated in the Kelleher article. Nelson continued, dating one of the photos used in the story to 1909 and stating that Kelleher was known for colorful stories. The incident appears to have been forgotten until referenced by Edwards's 1959 book.
The RCMP has since dismissed the case as an urban legend, claiming that the story originated in Frank Edwards' book. The RCMP also states, It is also believed that such a large village would never have been possible in such a remote area. The RCMP states that it has no record of any unusual activity in the area.
Brian Dunning debunked the claims in an episode of Skeptoid, although he updated his findings to report that he uncovered the existence of the November 1930 Emmett E. Kelleher article, believing there were no such references and that the story originated with the 1959 Edwards book (which he admits is incorrect). While he still cites Kelleher's story as dubious, he also states that despite this, the published article does indeed exist.
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Sled rides, Blue Sky
A fantastic afternoon dog sledding with Gerald and Jenafor Azure of Blue Sky Mush, Churchill, Manitoba.
My Trip to Churchill to see the polar bears
My Trip to Churchill to see the polar bears
Sled dogs saying Pick ME! Pick ME
Sled dogs are being assembled to go on a dog sled run, and the compound goes wild with canine excitement. Two sleds are being prepared, by Gerald Azure - owner and operator of Bluesky Expeditions - and his assistant, Claudia Grill of Austria.
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