Traveling to Antarctica is a bucket list item for a lot of people. And I’m lucky enough to have been to Antarctica – not once – but twice. On two occasions, I got to travel to Antarctica an...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/how-to-cruise-to-antarctica/
I picked up the thin, nearly translucent shaving from the ground. It looked like a shaving of a fingernail. I examined it closely. I slowly did a rough calculation in my head. This little, tiny r...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/what-travel-can-teach-you-about-rhino-conservation-thanda/
When I saw the email from Linda, my heart sank. I opened it trepidatiously and read the first sentence…. “Not sure how to transition to this, but I think Kitty might be nearing the end.” Im...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/sometimes-you-just-have-to-let-go/
The golden, wheat filled horizon stretched out in both directions as far as my eyes could see. The horizon line blurred at the ends as I squinted my eyes trying to take in such a vast landscape. ...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/getting-close-alberta-birds-prey/
Embark on an unforgettable adventure to witness the wonders of Macquarie Island wildlife, where you are the visitor on their island! There are 50,000 of them and 50 of us. We officially were in t...
Twelve thousand tourists visit Churchill Manitoba a year primarily to see polar bears. It’s a huge draw for a small town of 800 people. Since Churchill is remote and essentially cut off from an...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/winnipeg-canada-things-to-do/
“Was he a big one?” the waitress asked. “Ohhh yes, he was beautiful,” the older man said as he paused slightly as if to reminisce about the image in his head as he went on telling the sto...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/polar-bear-town-churchill-manitoba/
When I think about being exposed to different personalities, I always think about online dating. As I slowly rode the tundra buggy around in search of polar bears, I wondered what a bear’s dati...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/polar-bears-in-churchill-manitoba/
Imagine a fish out of water, that’s pretty much what a polar bear is when the sea ice disappears for the summer. It’s a huge, furry marine mammal on land, not where they belong. They aren’t...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/polar-bear-safari-churchill/
One week before heading to the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast in BC Canada, I had this show up in my inbox: “The Chinook Salmon are showing good numbers but it is the Sockeye that the Grizzlies key in...
https://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/grizzly-bear-viewing-bc-canada/