The White Pass & Yukon Route Railway - we didn't think we could get tickets but we did. What a day for it, a clear blue sky and plenty of sunshine. It is hard to believe that the 110 miles of track from Skagway to Whitehorse were laid in just 26 months. Our train ride would only take us as far as White pass summit and back but that was more than enough to satisfy us. The scenery got better and better as we climbed out of the tree line. I looked across to a ...

Driving west on the Yellowhead highway from Smithers I spotted a black bear in the bushes, by the time I had pointed it out nearly poking Donna in the eye we had already passed it by. It seemed a good start of things to come. We don't really want a close encounter with a bear on foot but from the safety of Tilly would be good. We turned onto highway 97, the Stewart Cassiar highway. There is so little along this 450 mile road that the visitor centres hand out le...

If you are intent on continuously looking for wildlife whilst driving nothing appears. Leaving Barkerville just concentrating on our journey and suddenly the RV in front slowed down for a moose by the roadside - No photo though. We did get photos of old rusty cars which don't go anywhere when we appear. Outside the towns people seem to have lots of space and old vehicles don't seem to get traded in but left out to graze. We moved onto to the outskirts of Prince...

A ticket at Barkerville is actually valid for two days - that's because it's impossible to experience it all in one. Our second day started with a guided tour round town by one of the saloon owners, whereby we learnt a lot more of what went in tow including the 'Hurdy Gurdy Girls' - dancing girls that would do more than dance if the miners would part with enough gold. Donna was drawn to the bakery by someone eating a Cornish pasty, the price put her off though...

It's 1862 and someone is hand digging through layers of soggy, worthless gravel, hoping and praying the next shovel-stroke will expose a fortune in gold. Everyone says he's crazy, but there's too much at stake to give up. Then at a depth of 52 feet the greatest creek-side gold nugget deposit the world has ever seen is discovered. The man is Billy Barker from England and around this rich claim the boomtown of 'Barkerville' is founded. In 1868 just as winter was ...