Traveling to Churchill Manitoba last October was the culmination of a dream I have had for most of my adult life. The opportunity to marvel at the polar bears as they roamed free around the Tundra Buggy playing with each other and looking at us far exceeded my wildest expectations. There is no comparison between [...]

Nothing would do for me except to rent a convertible on our first vacation to Manitoba. We were looking forward to veiwing wildlife and I wanted unobstructed views for my camcorder. Every evening we would strike out into the park hoping to see some animals. Every night we would see deer but [...]

Exhausted from too many challenges in life, we checked into the Elkhorn Resorts newly renovated Guestrooms. The first thing that caught my eye was the big new soft bed..We spent the day in the Solstice Spa, several different treatments that are new. The treatment was unbeleivable. Rosemary has magic hands. The rest of the day [...]

My boyfriend, Mike Karakas and I were canoeing at dusk on Red Rock Lake. Rather he was paddling and I was resting my paddle across the bow. The sun was just setting. It was that magical time between daylight and night – not a creature was stirring, people were having supper in their [...]

When I was very young, my parents and my brother travelled across Canada. As we passed through Manitoba, my mom brought us to a city named Austin. This is where my grandfather was born, and I remember there being a big model train as the sign that you have entered Austin. In town, we walked [...]

Every summer our family of 4 plus a cat would go camping somewhere in Canada. This one year we chose MB. We camped through NW MB with our trailer and our canoe meeting people from all over the world. A memory is the couple from Texas with their big truck and oversized trailer – when [...]

we went to northern manitoba on a fishing trip to an outpost lake north of flin flon. we had to take a boat across a lake, then ride in an old truck down a path cut into the woods. on the second day we went out fishing early in the morning. we [...]

On a typical afternoon out on Edmund Lake, I was guiding a guest to some trophy northern pike, when we noticed a bald eagle circling the area (typical up there) when it swooped down not 100 yards in front of us and snathced up a small northern pike from the suface. We both looked [...]

I like night-time in spring and early summer. Take April for example – any open space in the country will do. From April through August, there are multiple opportunities to view meteor showers. What makes meteor shower watching particularly good in Manitoba is that we have some of the best dark sky locations [...]