Carcross desert
We decided as we were leaving Whitehorse that we had enough time to visit Skagway for a day, so we drove south to Carcross. Tonight we are camped in the Tagish/Carcross First Nations campsite at Carcross. It is a nice site, similar to the Yukon government sites. We wondered why it didn’t show up on our Yukon Government Campgrounds map, but seemed to be marked as a campsite on the highway map and is described in our guide books. Unfortunately there is no water here. That didn’t bother us as we filled up in Whitehorse, but another couple left when they learned from us that there was no water here at all. You would have to go into Carcross to get water.
Along the way we passed the “Carcross Desert” which is a very large sand area of dunes on the shore of Bennett Lake. Apparently this is the remains of an ancient glacial lake that has long ago dried up, and now the wind blows the sand into these dunes as it is uncovered by the river. There were several ATV’s out on the dunes, and a couple of parasailors. The parasails didn’t seem to be working very well, so perhaps it wasn’t windy enough, though there is a westerly breeze tonight.