We woke to frost everywhere, it was a little cool. Around minus 2.
Scouted out Whitehorse. Found Tourist information centre and found groceries. Found our travel money card didn’t work at the grocery store, nor at the gas station. Loaded up with food, sufficient to head out up into the Yukon.
The ladies at the visitor centre were of English and Canadian French background. We researched options and chose to keep with our plan of going up through Dawson, over the Top of the World. For one thing, the highway tarmac was suppose to be better than the Alcan, of which its state of decay I wrote earlier.
Had lunch at McDonalds, and noticed that two languages were very predominant. While we had noticed everything in both English and French, it was in here we noticed that many people at the tables were speaking solely French.
No phone coverage and no internet in Macas, bugger. Seems global roaming has no provider in the Yukon.
Visited the Beringia Centre, and museum of Wooly Mammoths and the history of the Yukon area during and post the Ice Ages. This is a great museum. One of the staff took us outside and gave a demo and let us use the original inhabitants hunting tool, a tool very similar to our Woomera, and they referred to our woomera in their demo. It was amazing that indigenous Australians, the Azteks and the ice age peoples of this area, all used a hunting spear that was very similar in every aspect and engineering.
Beringia is an area from near Russia across the Bering Sea to the Yukon, that was dry and a narrow corridor existed during Ice Ages, that provided a route for animals and pre-historic man to traverse and populate. The Bearing Sea area was dry, because of the Ice that was 4 kilometres thick and its weight. It was a very informative.
Left Whitehorse enroute to Dawson and comenced driving up through Beringia. We decided to camp at Twin Lakes, providing a picturesque spot to stop and hopefully view the northern lights, but the moon is at ¾ full so a little bright. Expecting a cold night as we head north.
Weather: O/N Low: minus 2 Celsius High 10 degrees C.
Wildlife (stuffed): Wooly Mammoths, Saber Tooth Tigers, Giant Beavers and other pre-historic animals bones. A lovely long tailed colourful bird at Twin Lakes, name unknown.
O/N N 61 42.194 W 135 56.304
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