What better way to conclude my partnership with @travelmindset & @travelmanitoba than with a sunset. From the coast roughly 10-12 miles outside of the town of Churchill, that ship in the distance is the wreck of the Ithaca. I’ve spent a week reading posts and stories online and hilariously there are a lot of conflicting reports about this ship from it being Greek to British to having 3 names to having 6 over its lifetime. But one thing everyone seems to agree on, it ran aground during a storm in September of 1960 because of an eighty-mile-an-hour gale which caused the rudder to break. Attempts to drop anchor and wait out the storm failed, then the ship ran aground where it rests to this day in Bird Cove. During high tide, Ithaca appears to still sail as it once did but during low tide you can walk to it and see just how completely it is falling apart, especially in its mid-section which is almost gone by now. Tides can vary greatly in Churchill and, at least in summer when I visited, s...