Today our tour officially started. We met as a group for breakfast where we all introduced ourselves. It was good but not so good compared to our buffet breakfast yesterday. At 9am we took a short bus ride to the Riverboat Discovery tour. A 3 hour ride on a riverboat with a few stops along the way. First we stopped to see a bush pilot take off,
then we stopped at a dog musher kennel,
and then we actually got off the boat to experience a native village.
We saw many beautiful homes along the way and some that just didn't fit in at all.
Things started off with light rain but 1/2 way through the tour it turned out beautiful.
After the Riverboat we had lunch in the dining hall....miners beef stew....another bust for Chris. The salad and rolls were good though. Then it was off to Gold Dredge 8 to pan for some gold. This was way more elaborate than we both thought. There was a lot of history on the Alaska Pipeline and gold dredging. We panned for gold but unfortunately we did not get enough to pay for our trip. But I did put my gold flakes into a cool magnet for my fridge!
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