6/5/2016 Sunday Start
and End: Dawson City, YK, CN
We had a kicked back day here in Dawson City. We slept in and then I took a shower in our
teeny little shower; I’ve figured out the hot water! RV living requires developing lots of new
skills.
We went downtown to check out the grocery and hardware
stores. The food selection was amazing
for a place so removed from the rest of the world.
We then toured the Dawson History Museum. They had great displays and enthusiastic docents. Over 55,000 people, mostly men from the U.S., came here from 1897 through 1899 to find gold. There are huge hills of tailings all around the valley from their desperate efforts to make a fortune. Dawson City was the capital of the Yukon until 1953 when it moved to Whitehorse. If we took the ferry across the river we could get to Alaska via the Top of the World Highway but its a gravel, rough road that we don't want to take the RV on.
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| Dawson City History Museum |
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| Yukon River looking north from Dawson City dike |
In the afternoon Mike went out to prospect and I
stayed home editing videos. After dinner
we went for a walk along the dike that protects the city from the Yukon
River.
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| Mike as sie of the Discovery claim on Bonanza Creek |
We drove out to where Mike found
a speck of gold for his efforts and checked out one of the original dredges that worked the creek where the gold was first found. It was a massive piece of machinery.
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| No 4 Dredge on Bonanza creek |
Tomorrow we head back toward Whitehorse to
pick up the Alaska Highway toward Tok.
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