Whitehorse Again

Once again we have wifi !!!!! Dawson CITY not Creek as mentioned before is a nice town...however, the streets ( other than Front St) are not paved and the sidewalks are wooden boards...very unique. We did the standard touring of the town on the 22nd, visiting the Fireman's Museum and the sternwheeler graveyard. There were 3 sternwheels that we saw, and found out later, there were 5 more deeper in the bush. Brandy managed to have a swim in the Yukon River which she seemed to enjoy. We also went into the Grande Theatre with it's dining room style chairs and barrel stoves. The evening of the 22nd saw us take in the show at Diamond Tooth Gerdie's....sorta neat. At midnight, we drove up to The Dome to view the midnight sun......the pics here show how light is really is at that time. After what seemed to be a very short night, we headed off to find our fortune at panning for gold....we got some!!!!!! it is now in the form of a necklace for Sue. The next stop was the Dredge #4, which was the largest wooden dredge in North America. On the way back to the campground, we visited the old cemeteries of the town, going back to the late 1800's. Following that we visited the original cabins of Robert Service and Jack London. The childhood home of Pierre Berton is also there, back not open the the public as it is reserved for writers. Last night ( Thursday the 24th) had us staying at a Territorial Park Campground. It is for places like that we purchased a generator. Coming back to Whitehorse passed a large area where there was a layer of white material in the ground. This is volcanic ash from a volcano that, the feeling is, now buried beneath a glacier. At one time 1/3 of South Yukon was covered by this ash. We will leave Whitehorse tomorrow and head towards Watson Lake. We are going to go into the NWT, which is something that was not on our original agenda. I expect Internet service will be scarce again shortly.