We docked this morning in the town of Haines. I dismebarked with many others and after being greeted by a 'local' I headed off on an adventure.
The weather was awful - rainy, cold and windy! The ferry that came to collect about 50 of us was called the 'Fairweather Express' - a tad ironic.
Anyway we journeyed from Haines over to Skagway [Gateway to the Klondike from the Gold Rush era] - about 45minutes and mostly foggy. The guide advised us it would be an awful day as nearly every day in this area it rained! However we were really lucky and the sun came out....it was glorious!
This is just one of the many waterfalls we saw along the way.
This is the engine that pulled the train carriages.
This is one of the carriages from the historic train that carried us over the pass to the Yukon...as we travelled along we saw the harsh territory that the people seeking gold 'Smers' travell;ed by foot so many years ago! I have to say it looked much easier to sit in the train than make the climb over the mountains.
We travelled for about 90mins in the train - that took us 27miles to Fraser in Britich Columbia, Canada.
The story goes that in the days of the Gold Rush over 100 000 people [99% males] attempted to travel from Skagway to the Ykon to find Gold...they called the initial climb the 'Golden Mile. About 40 000 actually made the trek and only about 4000 in total actually found Gold.
As we travelled up the Mountain and then back doiwn again on the bus we crossed the borders between the USA and Canada a number of times.
This is known as International Falls, the waterfall flows down the mountain and to the left heads into Alaska, USA and on the right heads into British Columbia, Canada.
This a suspension bridge we drove across in our bus on the way back down the mountain. It is only fully suspended on 1 side and VERY loose on the other.....
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