May 27, 2016 Travel day to Watson Lake

Friday, May 27, 2016 Travel day to Watson Lake

It rained on and off all day.  I don’t think the sun made it out of the clouds it tried but the clouds won.  We did see a bear in a tree shortly after leaving the campground. The ladies wanted to stop off in Jade City.  This place has been family owned since the 1970’s and the mountains here in BC produce 95% of the jade in the world.  Jade comes in many colors from white to various shades of green to black.  It is also pretty hard stone ranging from a 6-6.5 on a scale of 10.  Jade objects are known to bestows good fortunes and bring peace.  So we had to buy a piece.  We arrived at Baby Nuggett Campground in Watson Lake around 2:30.  There was no internet or phone service here. Again we were one of the first ones to arrive by the end of the night we maybe had 12 RV’s.  After dinner we rode into town just to see the Signpost Forest.  Pictures are not going to do it justice and make you see just how big this place is.  Tomorrow we head to Whitehorse.  On a scale from 1-5 the roads today I would rate them 4.50.  There were some rough patches but going slow helped.  Had some gravel but not bad and then we came to some tar road that was great.  Not as bad as we thought. 

Our bear in a tree along the road

large lake along our route

The road was gravel for about a total of 20 miles today

Sign Post Forest

A sign from home

78,336 signs as of 2013

Totem outside the store at Baby Nuggett RV Park

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