It was a “three bear” day on the Alaskan Highway. First
we saw a single bear alongside the road in the grass eating. A little farther
up the road we saw two more bears. With no one behind us, we were able to stop
and take some pictures. Vince & Lisa were driving about 20-minutes ahead of
us and they also saw three black bears.
On Tuesday morning at the campground, Vince & Lisa discovered a problem on their RV and decided to head to Whitehorse where they had an appointment for repairs on Thursday morning. They were going to drive to Watson Lake and we were only going to drive to Muncho Lake, about 150-miles up the road, but we’ll meet them in Whitehorse.
We didn’t see any bears, but did see five moose (a cow
and baby moose, two moose crossing the road, and a bull moose that saw us
coming up the road and ran into the woods). The moose were all too quick for us
to get any pictures, but we did see three stone sheep.
We decided to stay overnight in a BC Provincial Park
campground on Muncho Lake. The Muncho Lake scenery was spectacular. The lake
water is blue-green and reminded us of the Caribbean water colors. Julie
spotted a moose around 9:30PM at the lake’s edge and got a photo of it.
Wednesday, June 17th, we left Muncho Lake and British
Columbia and finally crossed over into the Yukon Territory on our way to Watson
Lake, YT. We stopped in Coal Creek for lunch and met a couple who were with
Adventurer Caravans on a trip. They were the “tail-gunners” at the back of
their group of RVs. They were from Lincoln, NE and have been “full-timing”
since 2000 and working for Adventurer Caravans since 2001. They’ve been on
numerous trips throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
We spotted several buffalo along the road today and a
couple of swans on a lake, but only one bear. We stopped to take some photos of
the bear and Julie was excited. I asked her: “Are you ready to go; it’s just
another bear.” She didn’t think that was funny.
We got to Watson Lake, checked in at our campground, and detached the truck. We went into town and washed the truck. Then we went to the “Sign Post Forest” and spent about an hour looking at all the signs. The signs were from all over the U.S., Canada, and all over the world. They are mostly street signs and license plates and number over 80,000 total. The “Sign Post Forest” was started by a homesick G.I. during the building of the Alaska Highway in 1942.
On Thursday, June 18th, we left the Watson
Lake area and headed towards Whitehorse, about a 250-mile drive. Julie spotted
a bull moose, on her side of the road, standing in a small lake eating
vegetation from the lake bottom. She saw it as we were rounding a curve and we
couldn’t stop soon enough to take a photo.
We crossed the long bridge over Teslin Lake and stopped
for lunch.
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