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Two RV Gypsies: Full-Time RVers
(and Professional Travelers)
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| Kluane Lake, Destruction Bay, & Beaver Creek |
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Kluane is pronounced (Kloo-WA-nee) |
| A wild coyote alongside
the road- taken from a moving RV |
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| Kluane Lake - photos taken from a moving RV through the window - so forgive the window reflections. The pull-outs are not big enough for us to pull over and stop, but the lake is so beautiful, these photos still deserve to be seen. This lake is considered one of the most beautiful lakes in the WORLD. - June 2009 | |
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Lake Kluane
is the largest lake in the Yukon Territory |
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| below are photos from the same area - Kluane Lake and Destruction Bay. This set of photos was taken on the return trip - leaving Alaska and returning to Canada - August 14, 2009 | |
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This is where
the color of the water changes due to glacial water - AMAZING that there
is such a definite line for the color change instead of both colors blending
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| This Destruction Bay area is where the roads were really bad going into Alaska in June, but were repaired by the return trip in August. | |
| BEAUTIFUL SCENERY - Kluane Icefield Ranges - approaching Haines Junction |
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Haines Junction |
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The 24 foot high Haines Junction monument depicts wildlife |
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| Haines Junction was established in 1942 during construction of the Alaska Highway. The first buildings here were Army barracks for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Engineers were to build a new branch road connecting the Alaska Highway with the port of Haines on Lynn Canal. It was completed in 1943. | |
Burwash Landing - Yukon |
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| Burwash Landing is known for its black spruce burl bowls. Burls start as an irritation in the spruce. The tree sends extra sap as healant, which creates a growth or burl. Burls are either "green" - harvested from live trees in the spring, or they are "dry burls" taken from dead burl trees. Burls are peeled of their bark and used in their natural form as fenceposts or shaped and finished into a variety of objects such as bowls. | |
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| Burwash Landing is the traditional home of the Southern Tutchone people of the kluane Fist nation. the present location was first used as a summer camp until a trading post was built in the early 1900's. Burwash Landing had its 100th anniversary in 2004. There is a post office, community hall and several businesses. | |
| The two RV Gypsies stayed overnight in Beaver Creek before traveling on to Tok - the gateway to Alaska. Beaver Creek's population swells all the way up to 200 in the summer although they have a population of 149 year round. U.S. Customs is located 21 miles north of Beaver Creek on the Alaska Highway. Beaver Creek is the most westerly community in Canada. | |
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some kind of
wind control by the roadside |
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| beautiful
scenery |
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