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Wednesday, June 22, 2005
There's Gold in Them Thar Hills!
After breakfast and a quick tidy up, we headed out to do some exploring. We drove up Dome mountain to check out the view......amazing. Dome Mountian is where they hold the Solstice celebrations but judging by the beer and liquor bottles remaining we didn't miss a whole lot the night before.
Next stop was the "#4 Gold Dredge. This is a Gold dredge that ran till around 1956 and then was taken out of service. It sunk into the perma frost and was partially buried in the muck. A project was devised to free the dredge from it's mucky icy pond and restore it for people to see. They found a complete set of scoops lying in the marsh, a full blacksmith shop with tools and parts as well as other maintenance items used on the dredge. It was quite an amazing piece of machinery. Although I wouldn't want to have worked on one for the noise and cold.
We continued up the road and checked out some free gold panning sites as well as some other claims that were still actively working.
A real working gold mine
We got back to the trailer and had dinner and I did the laundry. At 10:45 we went over to "Diamond Tooth Girties" to take in the show of Can Can girls and singing. There was also a casino there......no nobody won anything. Edward disgraced the group by getting his head stuck up one of the Can Can Girl's skirts.......yes we have photographic evidence. In the second show the male singer decided to pick on me and sing to me.......it got really hot in there for a few minutes.....was my face red???
Ed!!! What are you doing?
It's 12:36 AM. Will it ever get dark??
Next stop was the "#4 Gold Dredge. This is a Gold dredge that ran till around 1956 and then was taken out of service. It sunk into the perma frost and was partially buried in the muck. A project was devised to free the dredge from it's mucky icy pond and restore it for people to see. They found a complete set of scoops lying in the marsh, a full blacksmith shop with tools and parts as well as other maintenance items used on the dredge. It was quite an amazing piece of machinery. Although I wouldn't want to have worked on one for the noise and cold.
We continued up the road and checked out some free gold panning sites as well as some other claims that were still actively working.
A real working gold mine
We got back to the trailer and had dinner and I did the laundry. At 10:45 we went over to "Diamond Tooth Girties" to take in the show of Can Can girls and singing. There was also a casino there......no nobody won anything. Edward disgraced the group by getting his head stuck up one of the Can Can Girl's skirts.......yes we have photographic evidence. In the second show the male singer decided to pick on me and sing to me.......it got really hot in there for a few minutes.....was my face red???
Ed!!! What are you doing?
It's 12:36 AM. Will it ever get dark??