Gary washed his trailer and pickup this morning. We stayed around the campground until about 11:30am and then went downtown to a small eating place that had salmon chowder. The girls had been told it was wonderful by one of the shop owners nearby. It was good but Gary makes a salmon chowder that is better. This was $6.50 a bowl and was maybe half enough to satisfy your hunger. We came back to camp and finished up the pizza we had brought home last night. I think we all agreed we wouldn't be going back for more.
After eating the pizza we went out to the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park which is 9 miles outside of Skagway. This is the site of the Gold Rush town of Dyea. Very little remains of the town now. There are a few boards where the building fell down but little else. At its peak in 1898 there were reportedly 5 to 8 thousand people in Dyea.
What made Dyea a boomtown wasn’t that there was gold there, it was the start of the Chilkoot Trail to the goldfields. The Chilkoot Trail was a snow free pass through the mountains that the local indigenous Indians used to trade with the inland tribes.
On the way back to town we stopped at an overlook of Skagway. There were a couple of Cruise Ships in the harbor. You can see that Skagway is surrounded by mountains.
As you can see, Twila and I are having a great time.
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