This coming summer looks good for Snowy Owls at Arctic Watch. They are easier to spot on the tundra. When we arrive in early summer, they are just fuzzy balls, a few weeks later they metamorphosed into beautiful white birds. The snowy owl population around Arctic Watch is closley linked to the lemming population. If there are lots of lemmings, then there are lots of snow owls. The summer of 2010 was a low year for lemmings on Somerset island. We anticipate that by 2012 the lemming population will be on the increase. At the same time, the overall population of snowy owls appears to have experienced a huge increase. (see link)

We hope this means lots of owls at Arctic Watch!

The Arctic is a magical place. For many generations, people have been taken by the sheer beauty of it. Some say you’ve been “bitten by the Arctic on your first visit”. As owners of Arctic Watch, it’s been nearly 20 years of adventure in the Arctic, and we are just as hooked as the first day we visited.

“It is, I suppose, a sort of disease – an arctic fever – and yet no microscope can discover its virus and it remains completely unknown to the savants of science. The arctic fever has no effect on the body but. lives only in the mind, filling its victim with a consuming urge to wander again, and forever, through those mighty spaces where the caribou herds flow like living rivers over the roll of the tundra. It is a disease of the imagination, and yet it attacks men whom you would not normally accuse of being imaginative. It is this unknown disease that drives taciturn white men back to their crude log shanties year after year, back to the desperate life of the interminable winter nights, and back to the wind and the search through the gray snow for the white fox and ermine. The disease is one of the great power indeed, for it does not leave such victims as these until life itself leaves them.” —  People of the Deer  by Farley Mowat

The Arctic fever must be running in our blood for three generations of Webers

" Hans Weber crossing the Owl river in Auyuittuq Park, Baffin Island 1953"

We have been travelling in the Arctic for more than 25 years. Food has always played a key element to the success in our adventures. We’ve always prided ourselves on offering the most amazing food in some of the most remote places. Someone well fed with amazing food is a happy guest.

Preparing the food supply for the summer is a long process and we have to be very meticulous. We source fresh, wholesome and natural food from the most local producers possible. We strive to build strong relationships with our suppliers.

The meat served at Arctic Watch is always organic. It is a golden rule at Arctic Watch. The result is always fantastic on the table.

Prairie heritage is our supplier of beef. From the Spirit View Ranch in northern Alberta, the angus beef is organic, free of antibiotics or additives.

Have a look at the attached video. They were recently award the 2012 Alberta Beef Producers Environmental Stewardship Award.
Congratulations!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYe0dQGZm2g