Sharp's Travels

We left our campsite in Dease Lake at 9:30am. We had 145 miles to cover today. We saw a fox and a bear. The bear was quite a ways ahead of us, running on the side of the road before he ducked into the trees.

We took a 10 minute break at mile 47 and looked for gold nuggets in hillside and rocks along the highway. Last year’s group found a nugget but we weren’t so lucky. We stopped right by a beautiful lake and while I was gold digging Gay was up on top of the 5th wheel taking pictures of the lake with a reflection of the surrounding mountains in the water. How pretty! He also got a picture of all the units lined along the road.

Our next stop was at Jade City. This is where 80% of the world’s jade is mined. The gal at the gift shop gave a great presentation about jade and we all shopped till we dropped. We had time left over for a quick sandwich for lunch before the caravan moved on.

We had some gravel roads with big pot holes. You had to weave your way around them. We arrived in the Downtown RV Park in Watson Lake around 5pm. After we got set up we headed to the grocery store to pick up milk, bread etc. We were their last customers of the day. Glad we made it.

After supper we met up with the Wiley’s and we all headed to the Sign Post Forrest to put up our signs. We brought a ladder along because we wanted our sign to be way up high.

Watson Lake is famous for their collection of sings. It all started back in 1942 when a homesick GI who was working on the Alaska Highway erected a sign pointing to his hometown of Danville, IL. New signs are added to the collection each year by visitors who wish to recognize their own communities. There are now over 40,000 signs.

We also went to Watson Lake’s Northern Lights Center and watched a presentation of the Northern Lights. You sat in a chair that relined back and you watched the movie on a sphere like screen. It was really neat.

All in all it was a very interesting day.

Gay has uploaded pictures of the day. See album: Dease Lake to Watson Lake