by Yvette Cardozo with photography by Mike Macri, Yvette Cardozo, Bill Hirsch
Oct 2001, Vol. 6 No. 1
It had been a disappointing two days in the waters off Churchill, Manitoba. Beluga whales normally crowd Button Bay, feeding and cavorting in reasonably clear water. But this summer in subarctic Canada the whales had been late to arrive and when they did, they stayed away from their usual spots. Our first day out, it was sunny with light winds and little chop but there wasn’t a single whale to be found in decent water. So we headed our rubber Zodiac five miles up the Churchill River where hundreds of them crowded a wedge of land called Mosquito Point.