July 8 - Boya Lake (provincial campground)

Monday morning we headed east on the Alaska Highway to the Tlingit cultural center in Teslin.  They had some interesting videos and displays.  A woman (Margaret)was there working on some leather ceremonial mittens.  Not sure what would drive someone to pay $800 for them, unless they were participating in the Tlingit ceremonies.  A tremendous amount of work go into the items, but paying $1,700 for a leather (beaded) vest is way out of my budget.

Margaret talked about when her 9-yr-old son shot his first moose and teaching him that he wasn't going to eat any steaks from that animal.  A Tlingit boy's first moose is butchered, and then the meat given to elders and others in their community.

The attacking mosquitoes - Boya Lake

We couldn't figure out where the mosquitoes were coming in.  Closed this vent.  Put "press'n seal" wrap on the stovetop vents.  Never found where they came in, but they sure kept coming.

This was absolutely the worst night of the trip.  We wouldn't have made it through the night without the ceiling fan.  The air flow helped keep them away from us.  David described the number of times he was bit as "a few".  I describe mine as "a LOT".    The campsite next to us had a guy in a tent.  We didn't want to have to run our engine to get the jacks up and make all that noise during the night, but I was tempted.  As soon as we saw him in the morning, we were out of there (the earliest we ever got moving on the whole trip).  It is supposed to be the "quiet" time from 10pm to 7am.  We left about 6am. 

I don't think some of the pictures loaded properly, but I'll have to fix later...sorry.  Just not enough band width here.