Cruise Port Guide
The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Glide through the ice-studded fjords of the Lower Savage Islands in a nimble Zodiac, searching for thick-billed murres, humpback whales, and Atlantic walrus hauled out on barnacled ledges. One of the most wildlife-rich Zodiac circuits in the entire Canadian Arctic.
Trek the wind-sculpted ridgelines of the Lower Savage Islands with an Inuit cultural guide, discovering 4,000-year-old Dorset-culture tent rings, fox-bone middens, and the eerie silence of a landscape unchanged for millennia. Archaeology meets breathtaking sub-Arctic panorama.
A dedicated private Zodiac session with a professional Arctic expedition photographer, composed around the extraordinary light that plays over the Lower Savages' quartzite cliffs and ice-laden waters. Return with portfolio-worthy images and expert post-processing guidance.
Paddle a stable sea kayak through the narrow tidal channels threading the Lower Savage Islands, at eye-level with harbour seals and Arctic terns in one of the least-visited paddling environments on Earth. Pure wilderness immersion under an enormous Arctic sky.
Don a drysuit and slip beneath the surface of Hudson Strait to discover a riot of cold-water kelp forests, sea urchins, and sculpin among the submerged quartzite boulders of the Savage Islands — an almost entirely unexplored marine world. Truly frontier exploration.
Join a professional ornithologist for an intimate, telescope-equipped survey of the Lower Savage Islands' teeming cliff colonies — thick-billed murres, black-legged kittiwakes, glaucous gulls and the elusive dovekie — in one of the densest seabird concentrations in Nunavut. A life-list defining morning.
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