The strange weather continues. Anyone would think we were living in the tropics (aside from the fact that its about 20 degrees colder than the tropics!). Days are warm and end with a storm.
I captured this image a few days ago down at the Yukon River - one of the great rivers of the planet. Sitting as a silent reminder of the greatest gold rush the world has seen - the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1800's - is the S.S. Klondike. During the hey day of the gold rush these sternwheelers plied the river between here and Dawson City - bringing in supplies and people to feed the goldfields - and bringing out the gold. From here (Whitehorse) the journey continued by train - the Yukon & White Pass Railroad - to Skagway, Alaska. The train still operates from Skagway, but only as far as Carcross - about an hour down the road from Whitehorse. Sadly, the sternwheelers are no longer - except as museum pieces.
Of course, today is a day of note here in the far north - the summer solstice. Whilst we are just shy of the arctic circle (the sun will actually set for a couple of hours here) just 500km north in Dawson, the sun will circle the sky without disappearing below the horizon. We will see a couple of hours of twilight down here in the "big smoke" of Whitehorse. Its a strange thing to go without true "night-time" for several months. You can always tell the people new to these parts by the aluminium foil taped to their bedroom windows.
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