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Caribou, Musk-oxen & Northern Lights
aka: Dance with Caribou!
All photos on this webpage have been taken by our clients & trip leaders while attending our Great Canadian Wilderness expeditions at our various wildlife camp locations in the NWT & Nunavut Canada. Placing your cursor over the photos on this page will bring pop-ups that tell more of the story! |
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Early autumn on the remote tundra of Canada's far North briefly offers one of the world's most spectacular displays of nature known to humankind... |
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Migrating caribou - in singles and small groups graze and roam the forever-reaching & rolling landscape...
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Musk-oxen
gather into larger and larger herds as they prepare for
their mating season at the end of August each year... |
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Muskoxen herd approaches the camp beach on the 2009 'Dance with Caribou' trip in Nunavut
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Waterfowl, beginning now their long flight south will fill the sky, and often lit on the local tundra ponds in order to rest & feed en-route...
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Rock & willow ptarmigan cackle in the bushes - now gathering into their winter flocks...
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Often on clear nights the aurora borealis dance and weave intricate patterns across the skies... The clarity of the atmosphere here offers a rare glimpse of raw wilderness afforded only to a lucky few - and the time of season offers a very special period that represents nature's power in a truly magical way... |
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As the low-bush bearberry & cranberry turn fire red, and the dwarf birch and willows evolve to displays of brilliant orange, yellows and gold, the riot of autumn colours are near blinding!
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Check out our new mini-movie on-lline:
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2010 SEAT SALE! We are currently offering a 30% off seat sale on our last few seats of our 2010 'Caribou, Musk-oxen & Northern Lights' wildlife expeditions! The specific dates available for this seat sale are August 20-27, 2010 & August 27-September 3, 2010. The adjusted prices are Single: $2,797.00 CDN or Double: $5,250.00 CDN (+ 5% GST) from Baker Lake, Nunavut. We are also able to secure 30% discounted round-trip airfares from Winnipeg to Baker Lake for our clients! If you are interested to join us, please email us at tundra@thelon.com or phone us and leave a message at 1-807-662-4512. Please leave a return phone number in either case, as often we are do not have internet access while on the field.
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Caribou, Musk-oxen & Northern Lights 2010 |
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Prices (Rates do not include
GST tax) |
Aug 13-20, 2010 |
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Single: $3,995.00
US - $3,995.00 CAD Double: $7,500.00 US - $7,500.00 CAD |
Aug. 20 to Aug. 27 - 2010 |
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Single: $3,995.00
US - $3,995.00 CAD
Double: $7,500.00 US - $7,500.00 CAD |
Aug. 27 to Sept 3 - 2010 |
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Single: $3,995.00
US - $3,995.00 CAD
Double: $7,500.00 US - $7,500.00 CAD |
Sept 3-10, 2010 |
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Single: $3,995.00
US - $3,995.00 CAD
Double: $7,500.00 US - $7,500.00 CAD |
Click here to make your reservation on the 2010 & 2011 'Dance with Caribou' trips!
Caribou, Musk-oxen & Northern Lights 2011 |
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Seats
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Prices (Rates do not include
GST tax) |
Aug 19-26, 2011 |
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Single: $3,995.00
US - $3,995.00 CAD Double: $7,500.00 US - $7,500.00 CAD |
Aug. 26 to Sept 2, 2011 |
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Single: $3,995.00
US - $3,995.00 CAD
Double: $7,500.00 US - $7,500.00 CAD |
September 2-9, 2011 |
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Single: $3,995.00
US - $3,995.00 CAD
Double: $7,500.00 US - $7,500.00 CAD |
You have the choice to combine two weeks of Caribou, Musk-oxen & Northern Lights' at a substantially reduced rate!
Add on $2,800.00 USD // $2,800.00 CDN per person
Prices do not include GST tax.
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About the 'Dance with Caribou' Expeditions: Far and away our most popular wildlife trip, join us this early autumn at a comfortable photo camp in the remote mainland Arctic of Nunavut, Canada.
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We will start this unique wildllife trip by boarding a charter boat or aircraft at the traditional Inuit settlement of Baker Lake in Nunavut and travel as far as 50-240 airmiles over the remote Arctic tundra known locally as the 'Barrenlands'. Then we will land at one of our remote wildlife basecamps - situated at one of the most isolated regions in mainland North America!
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Our wildlife camps typically offer comfortable & catered tent-camp accommodations including private sleeping tents, dining & shower facilities.
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2009 'Dance with Caribou' wildlife basecamp near Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut - click to enlarge
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As our photo camps are often set up nearby active wildlife water crossing for caribou and musk-oxen, often times such animals are seen right in the camp yard. Sometimes caribou stay around for days and even weeks at a time - and these characters are affectionately known as 'yardboo'!
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Depending on the site, we also offer an array of equipment on site such as boats & motors, canoes & kayaks and quality camping equipment, to enhance the expeditions and to seek out wildlife. On occasion, we set up and offer ground tent 'spike camps' to maximize wildlife viewing, and to explore new areas.
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We offer a one-week trip on the 'Dance with Caribou' expeditions, with the option to extend to a two-week trip at a reduced rate. Once at the camp, we offer a choice of daily escorted and interpretive programs that include wildlife exposure, native & natural history, and archaeology. |
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So come join us to experience true immersion with the late summer & early autumn mixing period of the barren-ground caribou cows, calves and bulls of the Beverly, Bathurst, Lorrilel, Kaminuariak & Ahiak herds. These are the largest and least human-influenced of the Nunavut herds. We will likely encounter a steady source of singles and small groups of grazing caribou nearly every day during the 'mixing' period leading up to the mating period and southbound migration.
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A meeting or two with musk oxen - often larger herds in prime winter pelage - is also certain at one of our remote and incredibly scenic camps on the mainland Arctic tundra.
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Check out our new mini-movie on-lline: A bull musk-ox grazing in the willows
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Often other wild animals will grace us with their presence on the 'Dance with Caribou' trips, including sic-sics, fox, moose, barrens grizzly, and occasionally - even wolverine!
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The tundra is hauntingly beautiful in the fall
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And the sunsets & northern lights - well - they are truly amazing up here!
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Incredible northern lights, intense autumn colours, an abundance of Arctic animals and
bird life
in a bustle of activity
all preparing
for
mating & the oncoming winter
truly makes
this trip a
photographers & naturalists
paradise!
2010 SEAT SALE! We are currently offering a 30% off seat sale on our last few seats of our 2010 'Caribou, Musk-oxen & Northern Lights' wildlife expeditions! The specific dates available for this seat sale are August 20-27, 2010 & August 27-September 3, 2010. The adjusted prices are Single: $2,797.00 CDN or Double: $5,250.00 CDN (+ 5% GST) from Baker Lake, Nunavut. We are also able to secure 30% discounted round-trip airfares from Winnipeg to Baker Lake for our clients! If you are interested to join us, please email us at tundra@thelon.com or phone us and leave a message at 1-807-662-4512. Please leave a return phone number in either case, as often we are do not have internet access while on the field.
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Caribou, Musk-oxen & Northern Lights 2010 |
Departure
Dates |
Seats
Left |
Prices (Rates do not include
GST tax) |
Aug 13-20, 2010 |
0 |
Single: $3,995.00
US - $3,995.00 CAD Double: $7,500.00 US - $7,500.00 CAD |
Aug. 20 to Aug. 27 - 2010 |
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Single: $3,995.00
US - $3,995.00 CAD
Double: $7,500.00 US - $7,500.00 CAD |
Aug. 27 to Sept 3 - 2010 |
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Single: $3,995.00
US - $3,995.00 CAD
Double: $7,500.00 US - $7,500.00 CAD |
Sept 3-10, 2010 |
0 |
Single: $3,995.00
US - $3,995.00 CAD
Double: $7,500.00 US - $7,500.00 CAD |
Click here to make your reservation on the 2010 & 2011 'Dance with Caribou' trips!
Caribou, Musk-oxen & Northern Lights 2011 |
Departure
Dates |
Seats
Left |
Prices (Rates do not include
GST tax) |
Aug 19-26, 2011 |
12 |
Single: $3,995.00
US - $3,995.00 CAD Double: $7,500.00 US - $7,500.00 CAD |
Aug. 26 to Sept 2, 2011 |
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Single: $3,995.00
US - $3,995.00 CAD
Double: $7,500.00 US - $7,500.00 CAD |
September 2-9, 2011 |
11 |
Single: $3,995.00
US - $3,995.00 CAD
Double: $7,500.00 US - $7,500.00 CAD |
You have the choice to combine two weeks of Caribou, Musk-oxen & Northern Lights' at a substantially reduced rate!
Add on $2,800.00 USD // $2,800.00 CDN per person
Prices do not include GST tax.
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mineral exploration in our last great North American wilderness. Click
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Phone: 1-800-667-9453 (Canada & USA) Overseas Phone: +807-662-4512 North American toll-free Fax: 866-416-5548 Email: tundra@thelon.com Request More Information |
