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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 to Pond Inlet's legendary floe edge — the razor-thin line where sea ice meets open water — and witness narwhals surfacing feet away, alongside ringed seals and swooping seabirds. This is one of the rarest wildlife encounters on Earth.
Step ashore on Bylot Island — a UNESCO Migratory Bird Sanctuary inside Sirmilik National Park — and trek through a landscape of glaciers, tundra wildflowers, and nesting thick-billed murres. This is one of Canada's most remote and spectacular national parks.
Paddle a sea kayak through the mirror-still waters of Eclipse Sound beneath the midnight sun, weaving between sculpted icebergs calved from the glaciers of Bylot Island. This is Arctic paddling at its most ethereal — intimate, silent, and utterly remote.
Enter the Nattinnak Centre, Pond Inlet's celebrated visitor centre and cultural heart, for a private guided session with Inuit elders and master carvers — an unscripted window into Inughuit cosmology, oral history, and living Arctic artistry.
Venture beyond the hamlet into the raw tundra surrounding Pond Inlet aboard a purpose-built Arctic vehicle, scanning the ice and boulder fields for the unmistakable silhouette of a polar bear. This is expedition wildlife at its most primal.
Walk the shoreline and elevated ridge above Pond Inlet in the ethereal gold of the midnight sun, guided by a local Inuit interpreter who frames the landscape — Eclipse Sound, Bylot Island glaciers, and drifting sea ice — through the lens of Inuit knowledge.
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