This morning we went to the El Dorado Gold Mine. The small train traveled through the original gold fields that once were part of Alaska's richest mining district on record. Vonda and Dexter Clark demonstrated how to pan. Then they, and two helpers, dipped their pans in the sluice trough. The picture shows the combined gold they panned. Each tourist was given a cloth poke filled with pay dirt. We went to an area where they had long troughs filled with water and were able to pan our own gold. We had it weighed, and the total value was $34.
Later in the day we went to The Georgeson Botanical Garden. The wind was a nuisance, and we had difficulty getting nice pictures. About the time we were ready to snap a picture, the wind would blow and destroy the picture.
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