SS Klondike and BERINGIA Center

After lunch we carpooled to where the SS Klondike was located. Here is Wayne and some of the other men waiting for the tour.

This is the SS Klondike. It is typical of the ships that brought supplies to the miners in the summers and took their gold back down to the ocean.

It also carried passengers. This is the parlor where the first class passengers spent their days looking at the scenery and reading.

This is the first class dining room.

The second class women and children shared a small room with this lavatory.

This is where the purser slept and worked.

This was our tour guide explaining the engine room.

This is some of the types of supplies that the SS Klondike carried.

After the tour we went to the visitor's center where I caught this unusual picture of a line in front of the men's room and the empty ladies room.

Here are the last of our tour members:

After the SS Klondike we went to the BERINGIA Interpretive Center.

We saw a movie that explaining that Beringia was the area between Russia and Alaska that was covered with ice during the last ice age. It went over the people and animals that moved back and forth over this area. After the movie we moved outside where they had this unusual sculpture.

Our tour guide taught the group how to use an ancient weapon and several of the people in the group tried their hand at it.

This large map showed the area in question in green.

This is a large mammoth skeleton.

This is the skeleton of the Yukon horse that was recently found intact in a glacier. We were lucky to be some of the first people to view the exhibit.

This is the article that told about the discovery.

We will have a group dinner tonight in the RV park clubroom.