We arrived in Dawson City relatively early on Thursday, Laurie being quite clever at figuring out we should be here early to get a camp site. We chose the campsite in the downtown area, which meant we could walk to almost everything (and run along the Yukon river in the morning - how cool is that!)
As many of you know, Dawson sits on permafrost so house construction has to accommodate this and it was as interesting to look at the old buildings as it was to look at the new construction, up on blocks with a skirt around them - no basements! We took a walking tour done by Parks Canada - they own and operate several historic sites here. Our guide was a lovely french Canadian gal, who made the 1.5 hour tour interesting and educational
We checked in with the NWT Information people, and the Dempster was still closed as of yesterday, (a creek crossing was washed out).
We quickly decided that we needed another day here to see the sights.
The old buildings are slowly sinking into the ground, some have been resurrected, many replaced. Brand new school.
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