July 4, 2012 - Nugget City Campground, west of Watson Lake, Yukon Ter. Canada

We left the Alaska and the USA this morning and we’re back in Canada, essentially on our way home, although it will be by way of Seattle and Portland. We heard the fireworks last night from about 11:00 thru midnight. We were already in bed and didn’t get up to see if we could see them. I guess there won’t be any here tonight. ;-) We’re back at the same campground where we spent 4 nights while the road was washed out.

Abandoned Silver Mine on road out of Skagway

I had been looking forward to seeing the fireweed flowers in Alaska. They had been so beautiful when we were here in 2000. This year they have had cooler weather and the fireweed has been a little late in blooming. We saw it just very occasionally, always along the road where we were traveling too fast to get stopped to even snap a picture. Today I started seeing it on the road a little more frequently, finally we saw some and could stop to get a picture, but it wasn’t bloomed out very much. When we drove into the campground here, it was blooming all over the place. So finally I have some pictures of it.

Fireweed

Fireweed at RV Park

The next few days will be mostly just driving. We’ll try to post if we have any pictures of wildlife or anything unusual.