Google is a proven leader of developing unique applications for the web. It recently came out with a new version of its popular Google Maps Street View application, entitled Street View snowmobile just in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Similar to its original Street View where Google uses trucks to take a series of images along streets in various cities, Street View snowmobile uses (you guessed it) snowmobiles to explore and capture images of the amazing scenery of ski slopes and trails.
This newest application has us here asking one question: How cool would it be to have Google Street view: Tundra Buggy?
Have a good weekend!
We have a great relationship with Travel Manitoba, a Destination Marketing Organization that promotes Manitoba as an awesome place to vacation. We found a great video they posted on their YouTube channel of 3 excited tourists on one of our Tundra Buggy adventures. They also were able to participate in a dogsledding adventure.
Check it out!
We love hosting media on all of our adventures. A few years ago, we hosted Al Roker from NBC’s TODAY show in Churchill to do a segment on our Tundra Buggy Adventure. He even stayed overnight at our Tundra Buggy Lodge.
Check out the segment below!
A few months ago we blogged about our fearless leader, Merv Gunter, winning the Distinguished Alumni Award from Red River College. The awards presentation was given, a video was even created, and now a billboard has been erected in his honour. Merv is officially a Winnipeg celebrity.
Check out his new billboard that is currently on the corner of Archibald Street and Mission Street in Winnipeg!
It’s been a while since we posted some polar bear footage that we captured this past autumn up in Churchill on our Tundra Buggy adventures. So, we decided to have some fun and put together a little video to celebrate the end of the work week.
We hope you enjoy and have a great weekend!
In little over a week we will be exhibiting at our very first consumer travel show of 2010. Every year we look forward to visiting some of our favourite cities and markets to chat with consumers and members of the travel trade to better educate them on why we are the best company to travel with to experience amazing wildlife viewing in Canada’s North!
Our first show will be on February 13 & 14 at the LA Times Travel & Adventure Show at the Los Angeles Convention Center. From there we travel to Reno, Nevada and will be a featured exhibitor and guest lecturer at the North American Nature Photography Association’s (NANPA) Nature Photography Summit on February 16 – 18.
After our little stint on the West Coast, we will then hop a plane and head to the East Coast where we will be exhibiting for the first time at the Boston Globe Travel Show on February 19 – 21, and then onto the “Big Apple” to participate in the New York Times Travel Show on February 16 – 28.
Finally, our consumer show season comes to a close in Chicago at the Chicago Tribune Travel & Adventure Show on March 20 & 21.
Please come and visit us at any of these fantastic travel shows if you will be in the area!
Dave Daley can now say he has!
For those who haven’t had the great pleasure of meeting Dave, he is the owner of Churchill-based Wapusk Adventures, a family-run dog sledding company. Dave and his authentic dogsledding adventures in the boreal forest is a favourite of our Polar Bears in Churchill guests. This past month, Dave kicked off 2010 by travelling 1,200 kilometres with his team of sled dogs from Churchill to Winnipeg to raise awareness for Manitoba Homecoming, a year long celebration that will bring former Manitobans back to the province to participate in festivals and events.
Dave, along with four Canadian Rangers, began his journey from Churchill on Sunday, January 3 and arrived at The Forks in Winnipeg on Saturday, January 23.
These images were captured on Dave’s last leg of the run between St Laurent, Manitoba and Winnipeg as he drove the sled dogs down Asssiniboine river to The Forks.
All images © Jerry Anderson
In 2008, along with PBI we had the opportunity to host Nat and Alex Wolff of the Nat & Alex Wolff Band (formerly the Naked Brothers Band) at Cape Churchill. While at the Cape, the brothers filmed a few informative videos where they interviewed such heavyweights in the polar bear research community as Dr. Ian Stirling and Steven Amstrup.
Here is Alex Wolff and his interview with the “Godfather of Polar Bears”, Dr. Stirling from a Tundra Buggy at Cape Churchill where they discuss polar bear tagging, the issues of climate change in the North, and his experience in a polar bear den.
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