Narwhals & Polar Bears: Naujaat
From: $1,000 CAD
Naujaat, formerly called Repulse Bay, is an Inuit community situated directly on the Arctic Circle. For nature enthusiasts and photographers, the location means the sun will at times be kissing the horizon, offering dramatic lighting on the rolling, shield-like landscape and featured ocean bays. Imagine crisp white chunks of diamond-like ice immersed in glimmering, azure waters at the floe edge. Around our land-based camp the flowering tundra glows in a kaleidoscope of colours.
Narwhal are abundant off the shores of nearby Ukkusiksalik National Park, along with other mammals in the area such as wolf, polar bear, caribou, Muskox and Arctic Fox, along with Bowhead and Beluga Whales. Another denizen of the area is walrus, which is rare but more likely to be found here than on our other floe edge trips. Migratory shorebirds, waterfowl and songbirds are also more prevalent, and we can encounter redpolls, longspurs, plovers, loons, eiders, geese, jaegers and more. Viewing and photography of sandpipers in breeding plumage is an exciting pastime near camp. Each has its own stunning song, not heard farther south on migration. Our trip involves five sunlit nights at a comfortable camp accessed via a two-hour commute, bookended on either end by a night in Naujaat.
