After lunch we drove around Skagway looking at some of the houses. We saw this house being built on a bluff overlooking Skagway – what a view they will have!
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| From Houses in Skagway |
We saw this house being remodeled and I’m sure they will add siding to the exterior. But we had seen a lot of homes here in Alaska that we started referring to as “Tyvek” homes because it was obvious that the homes had been left like that for years.
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We drove downtown and found a place on a side street to park the car – notice the wooden sidewalk.
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We walked around and looked at the shops and did a little shopping. We enjoyed looking at the quaint architecture and walking on the wooden sidewalks. Skagway is a tourist town and as many as 20 cruise ships stop here during a week’s time.
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We walked down to the docks to look at the cruise ships and discovered that there were 4 cruise ships docking here today – no wonder the streets and shops were so busy! Also we noticed that the closer we got to the docks, the more jewelry stores we walked past – they obviously cater to the tourists from the cruise ships.
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We saw a crowd of people watching the water near one of the cruise ships and saw this harbor seal trying to catch some fish. We watched for a while and Mike took a movie of him, but we never saw him catch a fish.
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We stopped at the White Pass & Yukon Depot and did a little shopping in The Train Shoppe.
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| From White Pass & Yukon Railroad |
We walked back to our car and shopped in a few stores along the way. It was after 5:00 when we got back to the RV and we took a few photos of the campground.
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| From Skagway |
We saw Steve and Merla who have a travel trailer in the row behind us and they told us that in a little while they were going to drive north of Skagway on the Dyea road to a spot where bears come to catch fish that are spawning. We told them we might drive out there later after we had dinner.
After dinner we took Tinker and drove north out of town and passed by the White Pass & Yukon Maintenance Yard.
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| From White Pass & Yukon Railroad |
We stopped at a scenic lookout on Dyea Road and took a few photos of Skagway.
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Dyea Road goes out to where the town of Dyea used to exist. During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 Dyea had a population of 10,000 and now very little remains of the town. This was the start of the 33-mile long Chilkoot Trail up to the gold fields Klondike Gold Fields.
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We continued out on Dyea Road and found the turnoff to the Dyea Historic Site. The road was now a narrow gravel road surrounded by a dense forest.
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We drove out to the Dyea Flats and did see salmon spawning and gulls hoping to catch some fish, but no bears.
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We headed back to Skagway and this rabbit ran in front of the car on Dyea Road
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and we saw some buildings that looked like they belonged to an old tourist stop.
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| From Skagway |
We made one last stop at the scenic overlook and took this photo of a cruise ship docked at Skagway.
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