Our next stop was in Fairbanks for a 5 day stay. We had 2 scheduled bus tours that included a riverboat cruise on the Riverboat Discovery, a gold mine tour with gold panning and a visit to the museum at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and seeing the muskox at the Large Animal Research facility (LARS) also at the university where we learned that muskox are a member of the goat family.
The riverboat cruise included a stop at the late Susan Bucher's sled dog training camp. Susan was a 4 time Iditarod winner who died of luekemia about 5 years ago. The man in the pictures is her husband who has continued her legacy. We also visited a site that is a replica of an Eskimo camp as another stop in the cruise. The gold mine tour explained how a gold mine funcioned. We panned but there was no gold for us. On our way, we stopped at a visitor's center that showed a section of the Alaska pipeline. Our last stops on the bus were to the Ice Museum and to the downtown plaza commemorating their statehood. The Ice Museum is dedicated to the Ice Carnival they have every March. They have an area where some of the previous years' ice sculptures are stored. We also were given a demonstration of ice carving.
Guests had time while in Fairbanks to do some optional tours like a flight across the Artic Circle or a flight to Barrow which is the northern most site in North America.
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| THE DISCOVERY III |
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| BUCHER'S KENNEL |
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| REINDEER |
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| STUFFED MOOSE |
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| ALASKA PIPELINE |
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| A PIG, USED TO CLEANOUT THE PIPELINE |
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| MUSKOX |
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| ESKIMO KAYAK |
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| STUFFED GRIZZLY BEAR |
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| CARVING DEMONSTRATION |
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| STATEHOOD PLAZA |
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| PAUL AND BETTY ON THE SHORE OF THE ARTIC OCEAN |
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| JACK AND SANDRA AT THE ARTIC CIRCLE |
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| SAMMY ON THE WAY TO THE ARTIC CIRCLE |
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