2016 Sep Alaska 15

From Valdez, we traveled back North through Tok, Alaska and down through Destruction Bay, Yukon to Skagway.  From Skagway we took a ferry boat tour to Juneau.

This museum was along the way somewhere. It had this nice display of Native American foods.  Dried fish is a staple.  Looks yummy to me!  NOT!!

I would like a coat like this.  It would probably cost a pretty penny.  Native Americans were and are very talented in designing and making coats like these.

Above a welcoming sign to Burwash, Yukon near Destruction Bay.  This gold pan was about 20 ft tall.  Below was the welcoming sign to Haynes Junction, Yukon just south of Burwash.  Looks like Haynes Junction did not want to be out done on their welcoming sign.

An elk passing in front of us on our way to Skagway.

This was such unusual landscape right before we got to Skagway.  These trees were growing right out of the rocks.

Present day Skagway above.  Below in the early 1900's.  Hasn't changed much.  The day before 4 cruise ships were in and 6,000 people were crowding the streets. 

Loved this car parked on a side street in Skagway.

Some very pretty boots for sale.  I imagine a few of the 6,000 tourists that day probably bought a pair or two.

Similar buses like we saw at Glacier National Park.

The bar maids here were very entertaining.  Cliff thought so at least.

Above the former site of Dyea near Skagway.  This town was established with the Gold Rush in 1898.  A majority of the gold seekers landed here and then traveled across a glacier to make it to the Yukon.  Below is a picture of the town of Dyea.  When the White Pass was built out of Skagway, this town closed down within a short period of time.

The last part of a building left of Dyea.

One story I read said 100 died in this avalanche,  Another said only 70.  Most were buried in this cemetery close to the former site of Dyea.

Only one of many tombstones in this cemetery with this same date.

The harbor was too shallow for the larger boats to make it to Dyea, so passengers had to transfer to smaller boats to travel the last few miles up the channel.  Thousands of people traveled from all over the West Coast of California, Oregon, and Washington to land in Dyea.

Above this ship sunk in the bay near Dyea.  The remains are still in the bottom of this bay.