No internet connection/time in Dawson City - this is written on the go between Dawson and Whitehorse.
Dawson is an amazing small "city". There are only 8 avenues and about 12 side streets. You can see from one end of the city to the other at any of the intersection. All the houses, shops and other building are wooden. Even some that look like brick or stone are wooden with tin fake "stone" facings! Lots of colour has been used and it is a great looking place. We set off for the information centre and were advised there o visit Number 4 Dredge up the Bonanza Creek - who could resist. Thre Dredge is an absolutely briliant, giant, gold mining machine. It has a displacement of 3300 tons and floats in a pond. Ithas a huge digging mechanism of linked buckets and gouges out the washed out and defrosted rocks in front of it. Insidfe the Dredge the gold is separated from thye rocks in a giant rotating drum and the rocks are dumped out of the back of the Dredge. In this way it digs it own way through the countryside. Dredge No. 4 had moved 12 miles in 18 years and dug huge amounts of gold. This visit was one of our many tour highlights.
After some lunch Eileen B. had a sleep as she wasn't feeling well so other one Eileen, Fern and I went back to the info centre to join a Murder Walk around the town. This was conducted by a guy dressed up as aa Mountie giving us various clues and telling us the actual background to the murder which had actually taken place in 1902. It was great fun as we were allowed into some of the oldest reconstructed building and trying to solve the crrime. It turned out it was the 2 Frenchmen!
At the end of the Murder walk we were outside the Govenors House so paid it a visit. It has been painstakingly restored and was very interesting - Google Martha Black + Dawson for a great story. On the way back we went into a saloon with swing doors for a beer. Inside - of course it was like any other pub with sport on the TV and loud music!
We ate at the Triple J then went across the road to Diamond Tooth Gerties to take in the 20.30 show. Gertie sang and there were some can-can dancers. Gertie's is also a casino run by the local community which benefits from all the profits so you don't mind loosing a few bucks, which I did!
Dawson is an amazing small "city". There are only 8 avenues and about 12 side streets. You can see from one end of the city to the other at any of the intersection. All the houses, shops and other building are wooden. Even some that look like brick or stone are wooden with tin fake "stone" facings! Lots of colour has been used and it is a great looking place. We set off for the information centre and were advised there o visit Number 4 Dredge up the Bonanza Creek - who could resist. Thre Dredge is an absolutely briliant, giant, gold mining machine. It has a displacement of 3300 tons and floats in a pond. Ithas a huge digging mechanism of linked buckets and gouges out the washed out and defrosted rocks in front of it. Insidfe the Dredge the gold is separated from thye rocks in a giant rotating drum and the rocks are dumped out of the back of the Dredge. In this way it digs it own way through the countryside. Dredge No. 4 had moved 12 miles in 18 years and dug huge amounts of gold. This visit was one of our many tour highlights.
After some lunch Eileen B. had a sleep as she wasn't feeling well so other one Eileen, Fern and I went back to the info centre to join a Murder Walk around the town. This was conducted by a guy dressed up as aa Mountie giving us various clues and telling us the actual background to the murder which had actually taken place in 1902. It was great fun as we were allowed into some of the oldest reconstructed building and trying to solve the crrime. It turned out it was the 2 Frenchmen!
At the end of the Murder walk we were outside the Govenors House so paid it a visit. It has been painstakingly restored and was very interesting - Google Martha Black + Dawson for a great story. On the way back we went into a saloon with swing doors for a beer. Inside - of course it was like any other pub with sport on the TV and loud music!
We ate at the Triple J then went across the road to Diamond Tooth Gerties to take in the 20.30 show. Gertie sang and there were some can-can dancers. Gertie's is also a casino run by the local community which benefits from all the profits so you don't mind loosing a few bucks, which I did!
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