Our first stop was the Yukon Transportation Museum. Out side the museum is a Douglas D-3 airplane that is mounted so delicately that even a 5 km wind will turn it. It is know as the world's largest weathervane. Inside the museum we were led by a delightful young lady giving us the history of transportation in the Yukon through trudging over dangerous almost impossible passes during the gold rush to the building of the Alaska highway during WWII to the development of air travel and train travel. It was very informative. One of the things I learned was that the Canadian government required each man who entered the country had to have a year's worth of supplies. They did not want starving men there. Therefore, each man had to carry 2 tons of supplies or more over those high passes. It is just hard for me to imagine how that was possible.
We ate lunch at a unique restaurant down town where we had Halibut and chowder. The meal certainly was not a disappointment to any of us. The atmosphere was entertaining as well.
There is a local trolley that runs along the Yukon River in the downtown. We took it to a grand old stern-wheeler named S.S. Klondike. It was much more luxurious that I had expected. There was a film we watched about the ship. The men who hauled the wood on to the ship and goods, including sacks of ore that were transported certainly worked hard.
Great pictures. Happy you are seeing lots of things.
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