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70 WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE WHERE ARE YOU GOING? WE GUARANTEE THE BEST PRICE ON ANY CHARTERS CHARTER BUS RENTAL SERVICES WINNIPEG, MANITOBA Relax and let us drive you. Air conditioned coaches with DVD, PA system, washroom, & underbus storage. IF YOU CAN THINK IT, WE CAN CHARTER IT! 204.888.4411 INFO@EXCLUSIVEBUSLINES.com WWW.EXCLUSIVEBUSLINES.COM TEAM TRANSPORTATION WEDDINGS CORPORATE EVENTS AIRPORT SHUTTLES TEAM TRANSPORTATION WEDDINGS CORPORATE EVENTS AIRPORT SHUTTLES churchillscience.ca Engaging 5 to 7 day learning vacations offer the chance to learn about the sub-arctic and support research Stay at an active research facility and learn from professional scientists and expert guides Develop a deeper understanding of Churchill's culture, history and wildlife Stop for SALAMANDERS Small but hardy, salamanders live up to 15 years in the wild — as long as they look both ways before crossing St. Leon's Main Street. On hot August days, migrating amphibians cross the road by the hundreds in this francophone hamlet in the Pembina Valley. St. Leon Interpretive Centre holds a wealth of information on these fascinating critters, which dig tunnels as deep as two metres to hibernate for the winter. The centre is also the place to learn about Manitoba's first wind farm, made up of more than 60 giant turbines that harvest the prairie winds nearby. > cistleon.com Winter WILDLIFE Hibernation is for the bears. Wood frogs go with the flow in the winter, freezing into solid forms that thaw out in spring. Learn about frogs, lemmings that create tunnel systems, birds that lay eggs in frigid temperatures and tiny shrews that populate the far north when you sign up for the Churchill North of 58°: Winter Ecology and Northern Culture tour — one of several themed learning vacations offered by the Churchill Northern Studies Centre. > churchillscience.ca SNAKES on the PLAINS Residents make a spectacle of themselves each spring at the Interlake's Narcisse Snake Dens, home to the world's largest population of red-sided garter snakes. During mating season, tens of thousands of snakes engage in a weeks-long breeding frenzy, writhing together in mass mating balls as they tumble from bushes or down rock faces. After dispersing to feeding grounds throughout the Interlake for the summer, the snakes return in September, sunning themselves near crevices in the limestone bedrock before they hibernate in a vast network of underground caverns. Follow the signs on Hwy 17 north of Inwood, where a statue of twin garter snakes S-s-sam and S-s-sara signals your arrival. A viewing tower overlooks the dens, and there's interpretive signage along trails at the Narcisse Wildlife Area which is open year-round for wildlife and birdwatching, hiking, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. > gov.mb.ca/conservation/wildlife/ NARCISSE SNAKE DENS