These rare photos are like scenes from some polar bears’ exclusive summer vacation.
Photographer Dennis Fast’s images of bears lounging in fields of wildflowers are both incredible and startling. We are so used to seeing polar bears surrounded by snow, we forget that they, too, enjoy a season of warm weather.
Fast, 79, captured the breathtaking shots on an island he dubs Fireweed Island, just off the coast of Hudson Bay north of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada—the town nicknamed the polar bear capital of the world.
(Courtesy of Dennis Fast)
(Courtesy of Dennis Fast)
(Courtesy of Dennis Fast)
In the early 2000s, a friend switched Fast onto the area covered in lush pink fireweed where polar bears could be seen frolicking around and relaxing….