Day 3 on the Tundra

We started out under a gray cloudy sky after breakfast at the Seaport Inn, our hotel. Fortunately, the cold weather did not deter the polar bears and we had our first sighting by 8:30 am. We saw some young males wrestling and a few came up to check out the Tundra vehicles. In the short time that we have been here, the Bay has become significantly more frozen. We saw a few bears out checking the ice. The sunset was amazing again with red lights reflected under the cloud cover for an amazing end to the day. Before dinner, Jonathan and I walked through the town, which takes about 15 minutes. We had dinner at the Seaport Inn and then listened to Caroline, who is a woman of the Denay tribe. Now, we are back at the hotel getting ready for tomorrow’s adventure - which will in part be a visit to a dog sled camp.

The weather today was the coldest yet...about 20 degrees at the high, but with the wind chill was in the teens.

Today's trivia:
The largest recorded polar bear measured over 12 feet long and weighed 2010 lbs. Polar bears will walk an average of 50 miles per day, can swim up to 6 miles/hour for over 10 hours without resting, and the bears we have been seeing over the last few days have likely not had a good meal since the spring.