Comments for My Travel Tales http://mytraveltales.com My Travel Tales Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:08:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Update on Polar Bears and Dogs by Colette http://mytraveltales.com/2008/11/13/update-on-polar-bears-and-dogs/#comment-162 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:08:02 +0000 http://mytraveltale.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-162 Thank you, Anne. I’m very sad about what’s happening in Churchill as well. I, too, fear that Ladoon will be made out to be a “hero” when there are still bears living on his land as others struggle to survive. However, he is by no means a hero and his actions are unjustifiable (in my opinion). Have you seen my most recent post this? Here’s the article I wrote following my journey to Churchill this past Novemeber 2010: http://mytraveltales.com/2010/11/15/who%E2%80%99s-protecting-the-polar-bears/ Would love your thoughts on that as well!

Thank you again for your thoughtful comment. Hopefully, by coming together and raising awareness, we can make a difference.

Colette

]]> Comment on Update on Polar Bears and Dogs by Anne http://mytraveltales.com/2008/11/13/update-on-polar-bears-and-dogs/#comment-161 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:36:18 +0000 http://mytraveltale.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-161 What an excellent piece of writing. I really appreciate you trying to expose the truth concerning Ladoon and the poor dogs in his care. I’ve been living in Churchill for the past few summers, and cannot describe to you the frustration I have with this man and what he’s doing to his animals, and the fact that more and more tourists are continuing to support him, and donate to his “charity”. On another depressing note, a documentary is about to be premiered at the TIFF about Ladoon:
http://tribeheaven.co.uk/cast/2011/04/20/the-last-dogs-of-winter-caleb-ross-costa-botes-teaser-trailer/
Unbelievable.

]]> Comment on Update on Polar Bears and Dogs by Claudia http://mytraveltales.com/2008/11/13/update-on-polar-bears-and-dogs/#comment-155 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:25:24 +0000 http://mytraveltale.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-155 Hey,
Tell us something about the aurora borealis…
Thanks for posting! I love bears!

]]> Comment on Who’s Protecting The Polar Bears? by Dave http://mytraveltales.com/2010/11/15/who%e2%80%99s-protecting-the-polar-bears/#comment-152 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:44:32 +0000 http://mytraveltales.com/?p=407#comment-152 i love polar bears too: take a look at http://www.mybusdriverisapolarbear.com and consider buying our polar bear book that is a bus driver

]]> Comment on Who’s Protecting The Polar Bears? by Mick McMurray http://mytraveltales.com/2010/11/15/who%e2%80%99s-protecting-the-polar-bears/#comment-150 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:58:24 +0000 http://mytraveltales.com/?p=407#comment-150 Fantastic pictures – I must have been in Churchill around the same time as you were.
I share the same misgivings that you have about the tours. The operator we had was fantastic, both the guides and the buggy driver were incredibly responsible – firmly but politely enforcing rules about food and noise and also declining to chase bears despite being encouraged to do so by some of our less sensitive fellow passengers.
It would have been great not to have been on a bus full of people but then I would not have been happy to have been encroaching in the ways that are shown in some of your pictures. I did see one incident, which made it to the newspapers in uk, of an idiot leaning out of the drivers window on a tundra buggy wearing a black hood over his face. I think he was probably trying to look more like a seal. The bear we saw did stand to have a good look at him but no more. He must have repeated the act though, because the pictures in the paper showed one bear investigating him really closely. I think that was a private hire and the guy was apparantly a “film-maker” – I may have read the situation wrong but I wasn’t particularly impressed.
Anyway – it was the trip of a lifetime for us, a really great place and fantastic to see the bears for real. I hope the photos we took, and have shown to friends and family, help in a small way to make a few people more aware of how special they really are and that we did not have too much of a negative impact on their lives.

]]> Comment on The Pictures Say It All: Polar Bears, Foxes and The Arctic by Barbara http://mytraveltales.com/2009/11/12/the-pictures-say-it-all-polar-bears-foxes-and-the-arctic/#comment-143 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:08:01 +0000 http://mytraveltales.com/?p=302#comment-143 Breathtaking! Great stuff! Greetings from Western Australia :-)

]]> Comment on Who’s Protecting The Polar Bears? by Alex http://mytraveltales.com/2010/11/15/who%e2%80%99s-protecting-the-polar-bears/#comment-139 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:55:06 +0000 http://mytraveltales.com/?p=407#comment-139 Amazing photos! Ive been looking for some images for christmass advertizing module for arctic shipping company. Can I buy this one http://mytraveltale.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/sweet-kisses-crop-for-blog.jpg ?

]]> Comment on Churchill Day 2: Fox, Polar Bears, Alarm Clocks by Lo Aleo http://mytraveltales.com/2010/11/10/churchill-day-2-fox-polar-bears/#comment-129 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:23:31 +0000 http://mytraveltales.com/?p=386#comment-129 SO amazing and wonderful!! Thanks so much for sharing!!!

]]> Comment on Who’s Protecting The Polar Bears? by Matthew Roberts http://mytraveltales.com/2010/11/15/who%e2%80%99s-protecting-the-polar-bears/#comment-128 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:53:48 +0000 http://mytraveltales.com/?p=407#comment-128 How much would it cost me for each?

]]> Comment on About by Colette http://mytraveltales.com/about/#comment-127 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:15:38 +0000 #comment-127 Thank you, Renee! It was really fun getting to know you and sharing the adventures with you as well. Looking forward to more in the future.

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