Return to Whitehorse

From Dawson City it was on to Whitehorse for a second visit.  On the way there were stopped at the bakery that has the "world largest cinnamon bun"  Sharon could not resist, she I heart the cinnamon bun. 

We took a unique tour of Schwatka Lake.  Even the taming effect of the hydroelectric damn still left a current that the boat; The Schwatka; barely was able to travel against.

The Schwatka

The current

Whitehorse still has some of the gold rush motif, but is becoming a modern city, and holds 75% of the population of the Yukon Territory.  It is the home of the "Frantic Follies".  This was the best show we saw on the trip.  It had a verity of show types and the people involved were very talented

Whitehorse downtown

The crew could sing and dance, and play a verity of instruments;

including the saw

 and a dramatic recitation and skit of "The Cremation of Sam McGee


 There are strange things done in the midnight sun
        By the men who moil for gold;
    The Arctic trails have their secret tales
        That would make your blood run cold;
    The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
        But the queerest they ever did see
    Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
        I cremated Sam McGee.
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And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar;
    And he wore a smile you could see a mile, and said: "Please close that door.
    It's fine in here, but I greatly fear, you'll let in the cold and storm —
    Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time I've been warm."

Sam ready for cremation

Whitehorse is also the home to the worlds largest wind vane.