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Thursday, June 23, 2005

Touring Dawson City

We had a lazy morning and then headed out to check out some sights and shops. We also had to go to the library and post office to run some errands. We arrived at the museum just in time to take in a gold panning demonstration. Very interesting....now we know the technique! After the museum we did some shopping....a few little gold trinkets and such and a gold panning pan for Colin to try his luck with.














We then went to the Grand Theatre and dance hall (Has been reconstructed from the original which was sinking into the ground and was basically destroyed. ) It would have been neat if it had been the original building but it was still interesting.

We decided to take a trailerless run on the ferry across the Yukon River to check it out for the morning. There was suppose to be a stern wheeler grave yard over there but we never found it. We decided to go up the first 20 KM of the "Top of the World Highway" so we would know what we would be up against in the morning. You are way up there and there are no guard rails and it's straight down.







The trailer "park"



Mechanical gold panner







Back to town for dinner and get ready for departure tomorrow.



And Oh yea wash the dog
Posted by: Colin & Margaret & Splash Werner / Thursday, June 23, 2005  


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