Today, I think I will do the blog a little differently. We saw some interesting things that I would like to include several photos of, so I may not have as much narrative, If you hover over the picture, I believe you will get an explanation of what we saw.
Our first destination for today was to go into the Discovery Site where gold was first found on the Bonanza Creek here in Dawson City. The road to that area is right next to our campground, the Bonanza Gold Motel and RV Park. The Discovery Claim has an interpretive trail with many things to see and signs to explaining all of the happenings surrounding gold discovery in this area.
Next, we visited the largest of the Bonanza Gold Dredges, No. 4.
We kept seeing bird houses along bonanza Creek Road. They would be on the old tailing piles and all of them looked extremely similar. It must have been the same person or group of people who installed them because they were all mounted the same way. Why they are all (maybe 50 or so along the length of the road) there, we could not tell, except to keep the birds happy. Here is a sample. The second set is actually a memorial to someone. From the body of a ATV that is crushed and beside the other tributes, I would guess that the person who died was killed in an ATV accident.
This is the top of Midnight Dome, from a distance, where we went yesterday. You can see that there is nothing around to block our view of the sun.
We took a hike to a viewpoint where a geocache was hidden. We found the geocache and the view was great! This is the trail and the view at the end.
I told you that they were continually scraping the dirt roads in town. Well, on our back from the viewpoint, here came the road graters.
We went back to the trailer for awhile. I worked on the blogs and Earl did some chores around the truck and the trailer. We went out to dinner at Sourdough Joe’s and had a delicious fish and chips and seafood chowder meal. We highly recommend this restaurant.
After dinner, we went exploring a little more. This is one of the restored buildings. I like the fact that you can get a lot done at this one stop shop.
Two photos of Front street.
These old buildings have been purposefully left like they are to show visitors what happens when you build on permafrost and the heat from the building melts the permafrost, causing the footings to settle at different rates.
Tomorrow we will be entering Alaska. We’ll see what adventures that brings.
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