Sternwheeler

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Discovery III

riverboat on the Chena river

 

landing sign

 

Captain Binkley

Son of an Alaskan who hiked over the Chilkoot trail to explore the Yukon, and became a riverboat Captain,
Captain Jim Binkley piloted freight vessels on the Yukon and Tananna rivers in the 1940's.
He started the river excursion business in Fairbanks in 1950.
Now with the third generation sternwheeler, Discovery III, the business continues with his sons.

 

Discovery III

 

sternwheeler

 

the airplane has replaced the river boat
 as the basic means of transportation to the interior

 

bush pilot demonstration of STOL
(Short Take Off and Landing)

 

where the Chena meets the glacier fed Tanana
(muddy look of the Tanana because it carries fine particle glacier flower)

 

The Tanana is a braided river

 

eagle on the bank

 

homemade sternwheeler

 

campaign barge of an Alaskan politician

Stop at the Athabascan village

Susan Butcher's

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