After breakfast this morning at Gypsy’s, we drove out to see the sight of a plane crash from 1979 and then went to the Eskimo Museum, which had lots of native art and carvings depicting their daily life. We then went dog sledding at Kelly’s dog yard. This was great fun and the dogs were raring to go! The Canadian sled dogs are smaller than the typical Alaskan sled dogs. Today the team consisted of eight dogs and each one can pull about 50 pounds. We had lunch at the Trader’s Table restaurant and then made a stop at the polar bear jail. The polar bear jail is where they keep polar bears who are too persistent about coming close to town and causing problems. These bears are trapped in special polar bear traps, tagged, and then kept at the jail until the ice freezes when they are released. We then boarded our propeller plane at the airport and arrived back in Winnipeg. We are now back at the Fort Gary Hotel.
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