Today we docked in Skagway which turned out to be our first port at which we compete with multiple (4) other ships.
As I mentioned in one of my first posts, this resulted in the crowding that ends up being annoying even to the point that the locals who depend on the tourist trade have begun to say “enough”.
The big attraction in Skagway is the White Pass Railway which takes tourists up into Canada and back in vintage railway cars paralleling the path used by fortune hunters in the days of the goldrush. The sights once the trees thinned out were great.
The following image is not particularly scenic, but I a including it because it shows the original trail used by some of the gold hunters to reach the interior,
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