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.
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The Schwatka |
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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
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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."
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Sam ready for cremation |
Whitehorse is also the home to the worlds largest wind vane.