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We ended up at mineral lick where Stone Sheep, elk and caribou come for
their daily dose of magnesium, calcium and sodium but we still didn’t
see any Stone Sheep. Mom, Tasha and Kaitlyn had a little bit of the
limestone rock the mineral lick is made of (its more like dust then rock).
It wasn’t salty like we thought it would be.
After our walk we continued to Watson Lake where we did some grocery
shopping and visited the signpost forest.
The signpost Forest was started in 1942 by Carl Lindley, a US army
engineer working on the Alaska Highway. People have been adding signs ever
since and its now up to over 51,000 signs.
Tasha and Kaitlyn painted a sign to add to the forest and Dad nailed it
up. Maybe one day they will come back with their children to try to find
it.
We passed through the town to our destination, the Watson Lake
Campground. The girls played in the playground while dad made the fire. He
did a great job. Tasha spun on the tire swing for so long she made herself
ill and had to lie down for a while.
We enjoyed the supper and the Banana Boats for dessert. Again Dad
raised his eyebrows at moms Girl Guide ideas, but loved his banana boat!
After that we practiced casting on the road with our fishing rods. Then
we tidied up, played magic and went to bed.
We saw a lot of wildlife that day including a mom moose and her calf
right by our campsite in the morning, a large black bear, a fox with his
lunch, three old birds that wanted to share our supper, a grey rabbit with a
very white tail and a beaver working away in the water.
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