The little boy in red is having a merry old time skipping down the dune until he falls on his face moment's later. He's a trooper through and the sand is soft enough so the fall does not faze him in the least.

While not a desert at all, Carcross Desert, as the locals are inclined to call it, is actually a large deposit of sand on a glacial lake bed. The sand is blown from the beach at Bennett Lake about 2 km away when the water level is low exposing the large sandy beach. The beach is formed from silt and sand deposited as the Watson River empties into the lake.

For more information on this fascinating 260 hectare (642 acre) sand dunes area, visit The Basement Geographer's article, The Carcross Desert.