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| A Second Look at the Town of Skagway, Alaska.
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Skagway is not just a favorite destination for cruise ships because of it's large port facilities in the deepest fjord in North America, or just for it's tremendous historic significance as the gateway to the famous White Pass, an alternate route to the Klondike during the gold rush days of the late 19th century, but also it is a tiny town of immense character.
By the way, when I was a kid, my dad used to tell me that I was a character. Back then I had no idea what that meant, but I had supposed it to be a carrot farmer. But there are carrots in Skagway, but not always the vegetable kind, but also carats. It's a second gold rush of an immense number of top quality jewelry shops. It isn't unusual for five cruise ships to be docked at the facilities in the same day, and thousands of visitors unleashed onto this venue to find not only great bargains, but also very unique items and jewelry, and even gold nuggets for sale from the gold fields.
I made the circuits looking for something special as well in the terms of visual elements. I found quite a bit: a fire hose care wash, a poodle on a bicycle, the A B (Arctic Brotherhood) Hall with it's facade of driftwood and so on. Take a peak at some of the work. You also will be able to see a peak.
