Whitehorse

I have been meaning to post pictures on the blog for several days but alas I have not been able to find an internet provider that could handle the large files it requires. All of them have just shut me down. So some day you may see a deluge of photos if I find one.
Yesterday we spent sightseeing in Whitehorse at the visitor center for some films and then on a trolley ride (really a neat little train) which was built at the turn of the century and used in Portugal up until the 30’s and later in a museum and now resurrected to give tourists a ride along the Yukon River here in Whitehorse.
Next a walk around the town and then out to the fish ladder at the power station ( the longest wooden fish ladder in the world). This is to help the salmon get around the dam that was built to harness electricity. You can view the salmon when they are here going up the ladder and they keep a count of the numbers that go up each year to monitor them.
Then we went back to the log church museum and watched a video of Rev Steele (I hope I have this name right) the Anglican minister who ate his boots. Apparently lost in the winter with two others while traveling from the Inuvik to the Dawson area they became lost because of early snow and were forced to eat their boots for food. For 52 days they spent in very poor conditions and each man lost about 50 lbs. But they finally arrived at an Indian village and were saved. Not so the Lost Patrol of the RCMP some two years later.
Lastly, we had tea at night with Les and Maureen (two English adventurers). Both are in their own Mercedes van conversions (more step vans like a bread truck) and both were members of the Silk Road Club that I had followed on the internet. These two were part of a group that has traveled to Russia, Mongolia, Tibet, China and to the tip of South America. All of this was in their RV’s. I gained lots of information from them and was happy to finally meet some of this group.
Today the sun is finally out and I think we will bid Wal Mart farewell and go to the Takhini hot springs near here for the day.
We were at the hot springs today for about 4-5 hours and the weather was great. The springs were warm and it was nice to relax there. We decided not to spend the night there as there was no internet service there as was advertised. So we are now back in Whitehorse outside the Legislative Assembly Building and the email service seems to be good here.
Photos
Wal Mart Parking
The trolly
The hydro plant
The SS Klondike
The fish ladder