July 20, 2013
Today was chores first, like shopping for groceries. Then we did some local sightseeing, first to
Miles Canyon of the Yukon River. The Canyon is quite pretty with stone column
formations along the edge.
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Miles Canyon - Downstream...note column formations in rock
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Miles Canyon - Upstream
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Donna & Ktherine on Footbridge
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The columns
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We then went on to the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Center.
For those who don’t recognize “Beringia,” This is the lost sub-continent that
formed during the last ice age 70,000 years ago. Beringia was comprised of
western Siberia, the now Bering Sea, and the Yukon part of Alaska. The area was
an artic desert with minimal moisture fall and remained ice free. Eastern and
southern Alaska and all east and south were covered with ice 1-5 KM thick.
Beringia was grassy arctic plains that hosted Woolly Mammoths and other
critters and early human hunters. This is not a big museum but has many fossil
skeletons and displays. Human existence with the Woolly Mammoths has been
documented.
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Katherine and Donna
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Nice Kitty-Kitty!
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Woolly Mammoth
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This is our final day in Whitehorse. Another day
would have been nice, but…it is what it is. I have now survived over 1 month
with no TV, no Newspaper, none of the political B.S. and I LOVE IT!!! :-)))))))
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Whitehorse International Airport Weather Vane
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Just another lake near Whitehorse
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Whitehorse, YT - The white cliffs, are not Dover, but accumulated Glacial dust eroded by the Yukon River
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