- No Travel. We spent the day in Whiteshorse, YT, exploring.
We stepped out of our hotel this morning to find ourselves in the midst of the Gay Pride Day parade.
We were happy to see that the RCMP were able to put one of their patrol cars in the parade.
We wandered down towards the historic area and found ourselves at the Dawson-Ashcroft Telegraph Station.
For those of you who prefer to read.
The Telegraph Station is a part of the MacBride Museum of the Yukon here in Whitehorse. This place is pretty cool, in spite of the name. Unfortunately photography is prohibited inside the museum, so the oldest thing you get to see is me.
This cool totem pole is on the river pathway. The totem pole is the thing behind Katherine.
We walked along the river bank, under the bridge to the north side of the river. This is the Yukon River.
And this is another view of the SS Klondike, this time showing the undercarriage and the paddle wheel.
Katherine got to the upper deck on the paddle wheeler. She was naturally drawn to the kitchen. What can I say?
This is the boiler, the fire end of the boiler. This is where the stokers worked. I post this picture in honour of my Dad, a stoker in the Canadian Navy. However I am pretty sure he did not have to throw logs below a boiler.
Yep, that's me. Yep, that's my wheelchair. Yep, I was there.
The Yukon parliament building and administrative headquarters.
An interesting shot of downtown Whitehorse.
Whitehorse may make this claim, but really Robert W. Service was a Dawson City man.
After wandering downtown for a while, we went up the hill to the airport area This is one of the water bombers that helps with the fire situation up here, something we are expecting to have to deal with tomorrow.
Up on the highway, above town, near the airport is the Beringia Interpretive Center. Part of the display is this statue of a wooly mammoth, a species that live here about 10.000 years ago.
This is one of the original CP Air DC3's which served Whitehorse. This plane is displayed outside the Yukon Transportation Museum, up on the upper highway.
This fascinating piece of equipment is also on display outside the Transportation Museum. Notice the US Army markings. This machine was used to build the Alaska Highway.
This barge is also on display. I don't know what it is all about, but I thought it was cool, as did Katherine.
And then there was this, the little engine that could.
We went back to the hotel where Katherine said I could have two beers. I did.
She had one too, and we had a wonderful end to our day.
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