Blogs from Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, North America - page 2

English version follows: Du 8 juin au 18 juin au 2015 Jour 6 - lundi, le 8 juin Départ pour un voyage de 8 jours. Nous sommes six, dans une mini-fourgonnette louée pour la première partie du voyage. Sur la route pour Skagway, nous faisons un arrêt au Lac Lewes et le Lac Emerald pour faire quelques photos, puis nous faisons un petit détour d'une quarantaine de kilomètres pour nous rendre à Tagish pour visiter Normand, de CasAventures (http://casaventures.com). C'est avec grand interêt que nous avons écouté Normand nous parler de sa passion pour ses chiens Alaskan qui participent à des courses de chiens. La trentaine de chiens sont heureux de recevoir de la visite et sont très affectueux avec nous. Étonnamment, ils jappent très peu, sauf pour attirer notre atten... read more

Our announced time for leaving this morning was 9 am. As I left my room, I ran into Terry (the gentleman from Ontario), who told me that we'd moved back to 10 am because there were still problems with the bus and Sherry was trying to get another coach. When we met up at 10 am, she said that she'd gotten a different bus, but it wouldn't start, so no go, regroup at 1 pm. The town is laid out on a grid, with Front Street along the river, then 2nd Ave, 3rd Ave, etc... The cross streets are named streets. So I wandered along 3rd and 2nd Avenues, then down to Front Street and the trail on the dike along the river. Walked to the Visitor's Center and asked if the ferry took pedestrian passengers. ... read more

Geo: 64.0633, -139.434The sky was overcast, threatening rain and smoky from a nearby forest fire when we hit the road at 9 am for the 5 hour ride north on the Klondike Hwy to Dawson City, a Yukon gold rush town that hit it rich around 1898. Our late start was due to our quest to find some wildlife (of the 4-legged variety) along the Yukon River at dusk (11 pm) last night. We didn't have any luck, but we did enjoy the river views as the sun began to set in the west.Leaving Carmacks, we followed the Yukon River north for a while, then headed through miles of timberland, with the clouds threatening overhead. We stopped for coffee at the Pelly River crossing, and followed that river for a time. At the Stewart River crossing ... read more

It rained most of the night and was still raining this morning, so we were very glad we did the walking tour last night. While the rest of the gang toured the town today I decided I needed to stay home and rest. Joe took awesome pictures of the city and everyone seemed to enjoy their walks about town. After dinner we all went to Diamond Tooth Gerties to do some gambling and watch the dancing girls show. Ron was picked to go on stage and dance with the "girls". His reward was a garter he had to take off one of the girls leg.. It was a total riot to watch. When we came out of the show at 9:30 pm we were literally blinded by the bright sunlight. Sunset was a little before 1:00 ... read more

Hunting tales…2007/2008 The Tourist season was winding down and the temperatures was starting to drop close to freezing . The days were already getting shorter and we were getting accepted by the small community as “local newcomers”. They where just as exited to meet us as we where meeting our new friends and neighbours. Getting to know everyone made me to feel like this was the best thing that could have happened. Iloved the little town and life felt like an adventure. Even going to the store was exiting. First we would take either the four-wheeler or hiked down to the river where Holly had his boat tied. We would cross the river and float down a few miles to Dawson, where everything was accessible by foot or bicycle. There were so many outside activities and ... read more