Colleen Withoos

Just got back from Belugas in Churchill. Had a great time. The train was quite late getting into Churchill, but that was the railways fault as there was not a replacement crew available and our engineers had to take mandatory rest period. The meals on train were very good. When we arrived the bus was there to take us to hotel. We had to use some of our free time to do a couple of local tours in town and really saw almost everything fairly easily. We were supposed to go on a boreal forest walk but it was raining fairly heavily so we misse Kimd that but we were kept busy on a bus tour outside the townsite. The hotel in Churchill was more than adequate although the meals were average at best. If one takes the time and chats to folks you can meet some. Very cool nteresting people with wonderful stories. We saw Belugas in harbour, went to Fort Prince of Wales,. took in the missile range, toured a wonderful museum of native art and history, went to Cape Merry, got up close to the grain terminal in the Port and even watched the second grain shipment arrive. Our tour guide did his best to make sure we saw and experienced everything we wanted. There were things beyond his control and our group just rolled with it and we had a great time. This tour had several 80+ year olds, a couple of other medical issues including me with a broken heel(2weeks post injury) and on a foot powered scooter. There were a couple of places I couldn't scoot into (got pushed to the Fort in a tundra wheel chair), but I did all the tours including getting on and off the boat. Would recommend this tour, even if you have a gimpy leg!