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Monday, May 23 Marsh Lake, Yukon Territory 48 degrees and foggy.
We thought the Canadian holiday was like our Memorial Day since that is next weekend. We found out that it is Victoria Day or the day they celebrate the Queen’s birthday.
Got organized for the day and drove over to Swan Haven a few km up the road, still on Marsh Lake. Here we were too late as in April the migrating swans, thousands of them, return to this marshy area where the river meets the lake to feed and then continue on to their nesting places throughout the Yukon. Ducks follow along with the swans since the swans have longer necks they bring up more goodies from the lake bottom and the ducks feed on the leftovers. The river keeps this section of the lake more ice free, although it was still covered in a lot of ice when we were there. Nothing in the marshes now but a bunch of Canadian geese and mallard ducks too far away to really see.
Drove on into Whitehorse looking for some of our group. Thought they might be in the Wal-mart parking lot. Lots of RV’s there but
none of our Roadtreks. Spotted a huge Canadian Wal-mart type store and decided to check it out. Bought a few things like a loaf of bread, 2 throws for $6.00 each, some saline nose drops at the exorbitant price of about $6. Bought the throws to wrap up with when up reading in the middle of the night. The nose drops to help with nasal stuff as everything is very dry with running the heat so much. Wandered the store to check out prices for comparison. Really nice store with a large selection of goods and groceries. Chicken was still way more expensive than beef per kilo. Stopped and filled up gas tank for $126.73 taking 91.9 liters at $1.379 a liter. Mileage at 8336.
Stopped at the real nice visitor’s center and spotted one of our group. He said that a bunch of the Trekkies were at the RV Park we had passed up on the hill, and that they were going to go to the Frantic Follies that night at 8:30. That sounded like fun so, we decided to join them at the campground and later that night.
Registered and set up/plugged in. Valerie napped and
I read a book until dinner time. Trying to eat down the food we have in freezer so that we can leave Rosie II unplugged at the ferry terminal in a few days when we head for Haines, Juneau, and Sitka.
The Follies was a burlesque type production; a little singing, instrumental music, magic, jokes, skits, and of course can-can girls. It was pleasant and the performers were good. We didn’t get out until 10:30 and of course expected it to be dark. Surprise—still light out. Sun rise is at 4:30 am and sunset is later than 10:30. We haven’t been awake to see the sunset yet. We do have a question about this long daylight stuff. They tell us not to drive at day break and twilight as the animals are on the road then, so when is this? Do the animals know the time? That is like the signs along the road that say “caribou crossing next 4 kms” and then after that “watch for deer for the next 5 kms”. Do mamas train their young to cross the road only at those places???
Yesterday one of the group saw and got pictures of---from inside their
Roadtrek they assure us---a mama grizzly and her two yearling cubs. They had driven off the main drag toward a town they wanted to check out and were going real slow as the mud was really deep—in fact it got so bad they turned around.
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