Well another awesome day!
62 km driven for a total of 2785 km
We had a nice small breakfast in the hotel and then went to the visitor information center to meet up for our first tour of the day; a walking tour that took a little over one hour. Our guide was great; we had her for both tours today.The morning tour was just the down town area and entry into three buildings that are not open to anyone not on these tours. The buildings were a saloon, a bank and the original post office.
After our lunch (bunwiches eaten in room) we drove up to the cabin of Robert Service (The Cremation of Sam McGee) to have our second tour. This one was more of Sue (our guide) reading more of his poems and then a quick walk through of the cabin. Again it was very interesting.
Right across the street from the cabin is the home of Laura Berton from the 20's. I really wanted to see it so now I can reread her book and knowing what the house looks like and its' location in the town I will enjoy the book more.
From there we went back to the visitor centre to pick up some gold mining pans. We headed up to Bonanza Creek (14 kms away) for some more historical sites.
The first was the largest dredge built. Over the years it had dredged the Klondike River and after that was done it was moved to Bonanza Creek (which is a tributary of the Klondike). Over the years it slowly worked its way up the creek and finally it got to the point where it was too expensive to repair and the price of gold was not high enough so it was put out of service and just left where it was.
A couple of kilometres from there (up the creek) is the location of the discovery location that started the gold rush.
A further two kilometres up the creek was the location for gold panning (with the pans we had gotten from the visitors centre). We spent about 20 minutes panning some known pay dirt. I got a couple of flakes but Caro wasn't so fortunate (mind you the flakes are probably worth only a cent or two!).
Once we made it back to town we then returned the pans and took the opportunity to watch a few videos of the gold rush etc.
With beautiful sunshine today and an uncertain weather forecast for tomorrow we decided to go up to the "Dome" and got some wonderful photos of the area
Supper was at a nearby hotel restaurant. Caro's was good but mine was average.
Tonight was a highlite night. The SourToe Challenge.!!You have to have a drink with a human toe in it and as part of the challenge the toe must touch your lips.
No problemo for me!!!! Caro took video of it and was able to edit out a couple of photos for me
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