Back to Whitehorse

The Alaska Highway is one-way in and one-way out.  When we came into Whitehorse over a month ago, it was raining and cold.  We stopped for a few days on our return trip to 80 degrees and sunshine.  We took advantage of the great weather.

 

A shot of the main street Downtown Whitehorse, capital of the Yukon.

 

 

S.S. Klondike, the largest Sternwheeler on the upper Yukon River.  Built in 1929 as an ore hauler.  She sank in 1936, was re-launched in 1937 and continued to haul passengers until 1955.  She was designated a National Historic Site in 1967. 

 

 

We all voted this was a good cargo haul.

 

 

First class seating.  Second class sat on benches in the back.

 We visited the Whitehorse Rapids Fishway which is the longest fish-ladder in the world.  Built to allow salmon and other fish that swim upstream to spawn to bypass the dam that was built.  One of the workers told us up to 3,000 salmon pass through each year.  Did you know that salmon spawn only once then die.   One salmon can lay over 5,000 eggs. 

 



 

A pathway down to the fish-ladder was decorated with hundreds of painted fish.