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For two days, I’d been squinting at big white rocks dotting the islands’ shores, willing them to shape shift into great white bears. By the third morning, I noticed a heavy curtain of fog had fallen over northern Quebec’s Ungava Bay, concealing the islands’ rich autumnal reds and browns, and redirecting my focus to just the few hundred feet of muted water. A couple of minke whales had breached in front of us as our small group departed from Ungava Polar Eco Tours’s camp on a boat excursion, but now silence and stillness had fallen. Even the muskox herd we’d spotted the day before seemed to have moved on.
While he scanned his surroundings, I chatted with my guide, Siinasi Tassé-Dion, who is from nearby Kuujjuaq, Nunavik’s main village, about seal hunting. “Sometimes it takes five minutes, sometimes five hours,” he said. “You need to have patience.” He was talking about his fellow Inuit hunters, but could have easily been addressing my fading optimism.
Voice steady and completely calm, our captain James May, another Kuujjuaq local whose family has long camped on the bay’s islands, pointed out something moving in the water. A bearded seal, maybe? It took a beat to grasp that I was watching a shaggy brown Arctic wolf forge its way through the glassy bay. I’d never seen a wolf, didn’t expect to see a wolf, and couldn’t quite believe I was seeing a wolf. Reaching the shore, it slipped out of the water and bounded up and over the hill. I finally let out my breath.
Fresh water spring runs through the Ungava Polar Eco Tours' base camp on Tiercel Island.
Muskox roam the shores of northern Quebec's Ungava Bay.
If you need schooling in the art of patience, you’ll find few better teachers than Inuit, for whom it’s long been an essential attribute for surviving harsh environments. According to Kuujjuaq-based Inuk activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, hunting “teaches our young people to be patient, courageous, bold under pressure, and reflective." The week I spent with Ungava Polar Eco Tours in September immersed me in these cultural values—as well as Nunavik’s rugged tundra landscapes.
Ungava Polar Eco Tours’ basecamp is located on Tiercel Island in the Gyrfalcon archipelago, just above the tree line in Nunavik, homeland of the Inuit of Quebec. I spent the days exploring the land and water by foot, fat bike, and boat, and slept in a heated igloo-shaped fiberglass shelter I was assured is capable of withstanding both polar bears and 155 mph winds. I couldn’t imagine traveling in that kind of environment without someone who knows it deeply. After all, as
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