to Teslin Government Campground 6/26-27
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hiding porcupine
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We stopped at the trail head to Rancheria Falls and did the short hike to the Falls. We encountered a porcupine who immediately scurried under the walkway bridge to hide. We also had a red squirrel accompany us for part of the walk.
We traveled on towards Teslin and as we approached the Nisutlin Bridge we got cell service and of course we stopped at the turn out to view the river and lake and catch up on Poke. We passed up the Yukon Motel/Lakeshore RV park right at the end of the Nisutlin River bridge (where the Nisutlin River and Teslin Lake meet) and drove on to the government camp. We are still next to the lake but you can't see it from out site. It's a very short walk from us, though. This is a dry camp but we could work on the computer because amazingly we still have cell service and we can use our phones as hot spots to work on our laptops.
Some interesting things about the Canadian highway: there's no trash along the road and the abundance of trees, lakes and rivers is phenomenal. The have large pull outs with "litter bins" every 15 miles or so. With a little bin sign well in advance telling which side of the highway it's on. Sometimes there's a pit toilet as well. There creeks are as big as our rivers with the amount of water flowing in them. I'm wondering what is the difference here between a creek and a river. Maybe rivers are longer. (Research needed). Many of the lakes look like very wide rivers. A lot of them along the Alaska Highway are long and narrow with one or two wide areas.
6/27 Today we drove back to the Nisutlin River Bridge and ate lunch at the Yukon Motel. We visited the Wildlife Museum and I got a couple of Christmas presents in the souvenir shop. We then drove down the road and visited the George Johnston Museum. He was a Tlingit (klink-it) Indian who bought the first car to the Tlingit community (his home) in 1928 even though they had no roads. He drove his car on the frozen lake and worked with the community to build a 5 mile road that he taxied tribe members up and down. He also taxied them across the lake and used his car to hunt on the frozen lake. He painted it white during the winter so the animals didn't run from it. His road later became part of the Alaska highway. George was a self taught photographer and took pictures of his tribal life. It was amazing how his photography shared a way of life that is mostly gone now. In most of his pictures the people are smiling and looking like they were having a good time. Not like the American Indian pictures we see back home. The serious faces his George's photos usually accompany hunting poses. George took his camera every where with him and took pictures of everything he wanted to share with others. He developed his pictures himself and the museum has preserved many of them.
6/27 Today we drove back to the Nisutlin River Bridge and ate lunch at the Yukon Motel. We visited the Wildlife Museum and I got a couple of Christmas presents in the souvenir shop. We then drove down the road and visited the George Johnston Museum. He was a Tlingit (klink-it) Indian who bought the first car to the Tlingit community (his home) in 1928 even though they had no roads. He drove his car on the frozen lake and worked with the community to build a 5 mile road that he taxied tribe members up and down. He also taxied them across the lake and used his car to hunt on the frozen lake. He painted it white during the winter so the animals didn't run from it. His road later became part of the Alaska highway. George was a self taught photographer and took pictures of his tribal life. It was amazing how his photography shared a way of life that is mostly gone now. In most of his pictures the people are smiling and looking like they were having a good time. Not like the American Indian pictures we see back home. The serious faces his George's photos usually accompany hunting poses. George took his camera every where with him and took pictures of everything he wanted to share with others. He developed his pictures himself and the museum has preserved many of them.
After the museum, we traveled back to our camp from last night and set up shop, took a walk along the gravelly shoreline of lake Teslin Lake and caught up on posts.
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