There are a lot of stories in Skagway about how the supply ship Bark Canada was shipwrecked on the shore of Long Bay over 100 years ago. I'm not sure which is true, or if anyone even actually knows the truth, so the story I tell my tourists is different every time (never trust a tour guide). The remains can only be seen when the tide is out, and its usually just a few fragments of the ribs of the ship sticking out of the water. We've been having some incredibly low tides this past week, so when I noticed the entire ship out of the water I couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a closer look. Turns out theres a lot more left of the ship than I thought. Nearly the entire bottom of the boat is still intact, although its covered in seaweed and a thick coating of mussles. There are also some big iron pieces that I'm guessing are some sort of bracing.

Steven's been in Skagway 4 seasons and I've been here 3, and neither of us had ever made it up to Lost Lake, so on one of our last days off together we decided it was time to check it out. The hike is short, just under a mile and a half, but really steep. It was a whole new perspective on our surroundings, and neither of us had ever seen the Taiya river from that high up before. We were able to spot the course that the Chilkoot Trail takes as it parallels the river for quite a ways. We have plans to go up again in another month or so, as the trail and lake are both lined with wild blueberry bushes.

This weekend I took Steven surprise camping next to the waterfall on the mountain that we work on. We drove up at the end of the day for a "picnic" and ended up staying the night in a protected area on the side of the mountain. We saw a brown bear on our hike down, so we bagged all of our food and hung it down the gorge just over the river. The only thing that bothered us that night were mosquitos!

A few pictures from todays visit to the Carcross Desert in the Yukon. Its so small we walked from one end to the other in about 20 minutes! We also had a great dinner at a "slow food" restaurant in Tagish. The wildlife count for the day was 3 bears, 1 mountain goat, 1 porcupine and a rabbit.