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Trips in 2008:
NONE SCHEDULED AT THIS
TIME.
* Includes airfare from Ottowa to Baffin Island. Based on shared accomodation. All flights and expedition costs are subject to change without prior notice until confirmed reservation.
Tour price includes:
- Two (or three, depending on expedition choice) weeks of snowmobiling, qamutiks and three Inuit guides/hunters.
- Camping equipment. tents, fuel, all food - to sustain.
- Life for two weeks on the ice!
- All meals throughout the ice safari - local cooking is very
basic.
- All diving services, tanks and weights.
- Photography Presentation and Instruction.
- Leadership by experienced expedition staff.
- Administrative services, service taxes and port charges throughout
the program.
- Comprehensive pre-departure material.
Not included in Tour Price:
- All airfare, whether on scheduled or charter
flights, to Ottawa and Baffin Island.
- Overnights required in Ottawa. Transfers
to and from airport
- Two nights at the High Arctic Hotel and
meals.
- Meals which are not specified above
- Baggage, cancellation and personal insurance
(which is strongly recommended)
- Excess baggage charges on all flights.
- All items of a personal nature
- Gratuities to the local guides
- Additional costs incurred due to independent
travel arrangements
Payment Policy & Deposit:
When we receive your deposit, we will
send you a comprehensive and detailed Trip Preparation Bulletin
about the experience and the destination. All flights and trip costs
are subject to change without prior notice until confirmed reservation.
- A non-refundable deposit of $4,300 (for the 2007 trip)
is required to secure a space on space on the trip.
- Full payment is due no later than 90 days before departure.
- We reserve the right to sell any space that is not paid in full by 60 days before departure.
- Refund is made if replacement was found less unrecoverable costs of sales, administration special promotion.
- Cancellation must be made in writing, 90 days before departure.
- No refund is made for unused part of the itinerary.
What to Pack for Camping on the Ice:
- Waterproof Back-pack for excursions.
- Warm (thermal) underwear and warm socks.
- Warm trousers, such as ski pants.
- Warm jacket, with good wind insulation, made of materials such
as Gore-Tex.
- Waterproof clothes (for our zodiac cruises)
- Warm sweaters.
- Mittens, gloves, and a warm cap.
- Very important:Warm, waterproof rubber boots. No hiking shoes,
because they will always leak on wet ground when going ashore
from the zodiacs and when crossing a stream. We do not supply
any extra rubber boots. You must bring your own!
- Sun lotion and sunglasses.
Scuba Diving Equipment:
Detailed information about the gear you will
need to bring will be in the Expedition Preparation Bulletin.
You must be experienced with drysuit diving prior to the trip.
Travel Documents:
US citizens are required to have a valid passport
and round-trip air ticket.
Information current as of January, 2007. Dates and prices may be subject to change without prior notice.
For Booking and/or further
questions, contact Amos:
Phone: (415) 923-9865
Toll free: 877-229-4253
Email:
We look forward to you joining
us on this adventure of a lifetime!
To join us, please complete the Registration
Form
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Day 1:
Depart home town for Ottawa, Canada. Overnight
Day 2:
Join the flight to Arctic Bay, Northern Baffin
Island. Arrive early afternoon. Transfer to Arctic Bay hotel for
overnight. Load the qamutiks. Get acclimated to the cold.
Day 3 –14
(Day 3 - 21 for 3 week adventure):
We go out today in a convoy onboard the snowmobiles
and cross the frozen surface of Admiralty Inlet toward Lancaster
Sound in search of open water. For the next 14 days we will explore
the wide vastness of the Arctic ice and search for Polar Bears preying
on seals.
We will also search the floe edge and wait
for the arriving Belugas and Narwhales.
In order to improve our encounters, we move
our camp every few days according to hunters’ reports about
animal sightings. Camp is also moved as a precaution from the constant
shift in the ice condition, which is affected by the ever-changing
winds.
In the comfort of our tents, we rest &
sleep during the day when the sun is high in the sky, which is the
same time that the wild animals are resting. We move on for search,
discovery and encounters in the early afternoon when the sun throws
her warm colored rays across the ice and illuminates the polar animals
in complimenting colors.
Day 15
(Day 22 for 3 week adventure):
Fold our camp and gear for the last time
this season and travel over the slushy and dangerous shifting ice
on our way back to Arctic Bay. Overnight at the Hotel.
Day 16
(Day 23 for 3 week adventure):
Join the flight to Ottawa and over night
there again.
Day 17:
(Day 24 for 3 week adventure):
Early morning return back to the airport
for the last flight home.
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