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Yukon Territory, Canada


After my bald eagle had enough of me and flew off we got on the road to the Yukon. It was a nice drive through the mountains that gave us some great views. We stopped for lunch in a tiny little town called Carcross, a little touristy now, but I suspect that's because it is litterally the only town for probably 100 miles in any direction so it's natural for everyone to stop there. After lunch and wandering around town for a few mintues we continued north to the smallest desert in the world. The Carcross desert is only 1 square mile. It's kind of random to find sand dunes this far north but the story is that glacial lakes deposited silt here durng the last ice age, once the lakes dried up, the sand was left behind. After this we again headed north, this time to Emerald Lake. The lake gets it's emerald color from light reflecting off the large amounts of clay and calcium carbonate that was left behind after glaciers from the last ice age melted. Emerald lake is where we turned around and headed back to Skagway and the ship.

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