USS Klondike: A replica of the boat used by Stampede rs on 1893
Musk-ox
Mountain Goats
Downtown White Horse
CaribuI am blogging from the campground of lake Takhini Hot Springs at Whitehorse. The Hot springs are really hot and nice. We went at 8am when no one was there , now I just went and it is full of kids as well as European sounding young people. Seems to be a popular thing to do here.
We went to the wild life habitat and it was nice. They have lots of space for the animals and you just walk around and see what you see. We saw quite a few but no Moose or Arctic Fox L Today is sunny but still cold from a Californian point of view.
We learned that Yukon’s population is around 30,000 out of which 26,000 live in white horse, I guess rest of the area is pretty empty. Downtown was nice, has several cute shops historic and artsy as well as tourist traps. The library was quit impressive and has longer hours than our Los Altos one and has free internet.
The boat , US Klondike is a replica of the boat stampedes used ( the gold seekers) to get to Dawson City, another 400 miles away. So, they came for Gold from all over the world, took a ship t oSkagway ( three months) than did the grueling hike of over 140 limes ( over the 10,000 feet mountain pass) with a one year supply of food to Whitehorse and than took the boat to Dawson city. Quite an accomplishment ( or greed) …only 100 out of 100,000 that came got rich.
Good night and will talk to you tomorrow
No comments:
Post a Comment