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Another beautiful day with blue skies and fluffy white clouds. We lost an hour when we crossed the border into the Yukon because they are in a different time zone. We had more beautiful views today of mountain ranges, lakes and rivers. We made a quick stop at Pickhandle Lake for some pictures and were treated to a mother duck and her 5 babies on the bank of the lake, just on the edge of the parking lot.

We arrived at our destination – camping at the edge of Kluane Lake across the road from Kluane National Park. Since we aren’t in National Park land, my Yukon fishing licence is valid so maybe we’ll have to try our hand at it. We’ll see what the edge of the lake is like.

The lakefront campsites were all taken since we were a bit later getting in with the time change. We found a nice site in the trees and enjoyed a nice campfire.

The next morning we got up and after breakfast went down to check the campsites at the waterfront. We found a nice one and moved the trailer. We can see the lakeshore right from our campsite.

We walked a short trail right from the campground, returning along the water’s edge to our campsite. Along the way we met a man fishing – he lives in Whitehorse, but was out camping and told us there are some large lake trout that he has caught right from the shore – up to 20 pounds. After a bit of a rest at our campsite, I dug out the fishing pole and headed down to the point to try my luck casting from shore. Although I had one hit on my lure, we came back to the campsite without any fish for supper. It is a good lake to fish from shore – it drops quickly and I didn’t have any problems with weeds or large rocks to lose my lure.

Tomorrow on to Haines Junction and Kluane National Park to camp.

We had a nice drive today. Mostly clear blue skies and in the low 20s. We made a stop for a light lunch in Tok at Fast Eddies again – shared a plate of halibut fish and chips – it was early considering when we finished breakfast, but we figured it would keep us going until we stopped for supper. The mountain ranges today were pretty spectacular.

We decided to make our stop at the side of the road overlooking the mountain peaks. It was a pull out about 20 miles from the Alaska/Yukon border, and although we stopped there late afternoon, we only had two vehicles pull in the whole time through to the next morning. We had a good visit with one of the people who stopped – he was retired from the military, having lived in Alaska for 10 years. He was pulling a fishing boat and had a tent platform on his truck. He now lives in Minnesota but comes back up to fish and hunt every year in the late summer/early fall. We finished the evening with a spectacular sunset.

In the morning, we had breakfast and headed out – next stop Kluane Lake!