Thursday, July 30, 2009

Through Dawson Creek and to Chetwynd

This is Chetwynd from the top of a hill.

Chetwynd has recently earned the title, "Chain Saw Sculpture Capital of the World" for the collection of chain saw sculptures.

The next little town from Dawson Creek is Chetwynd.

I don't know what this is. It might be a llama. I wish it was turned my way.

Another bridge along the way.

And away we go again. We were going to stay at Dawson Creek for the night but we were trying to get out of Canada as quick as we could so we went on.

And here we are, finally in front of the World Famous Alaskan Highway. We couldn't leave without taking a picture there. This is one of the main pictures of the Alaskan trip.

We got this Canadian to take our picture in front of the Mile Marker just before we left Dawson Creek. Boy did he talk. He talked a lot of history and about our presidents.

This is a statue that is located at a roundabout across from the Alaskan Highway mile marker and the grain elevator.

This is another of the Mile Markers which is down the road across from the Visitor's Center. It also tells you how many miles to different towns.

This is the Visitor's Center at Dawson Creek and is next door to the Grain Elevator building.
This is the last of Dawson Creek's heritage elevators which now houses an art gallery. It is a wooden grain elevator and was bought and moved to its present location through the efforts of community organizations and has been refurbished.

Another marker letting us know that this is Mile 0 of the Alaskan Highway.

Well, here we are entering into Mile 0 of the Alaskan Highway. We didn't start at Mile 0 of the Alaskan highway because when we were at Prince George, we heard that there were some fires at Fort St. John and were afraid that we would get stranded there and wouldn't know for how long so we decided to reroute.

We're finally coming into Dawson Creek. We had a little rain as we were coming in.

And then there were some green fields also.

There were several fields of yellow. I read somewhere that these fields are planted with canola, a hybrid of rapeseed that was developed as a low cholesterol oil seed. Raw seed is processed in Alberta and Japan.

Fort St. John from top of a hill.

Coming into Fort St. John.

Just a scenery shot while on our way to Dawson Creek.

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