and a viewing tower for these cute little guys... The Man-Cub loves them -
they were barking at us and one (the sentinel) kept barking and barking - just a steady little chirp every second or two - then all of a sudden all of the guys behind him raised up on their hind legs in unison and let out one chirp also in unison and went on about their business - I was fascinated by this and wished that I had gotten it on video - apparently they decided we were no threat...
...and we saw some bison - the ones at Sully's Hill are genetically pure - never mated with cattle...
This is where we started the hike about this time last year - you see it completely under water - so we went around...
a different way around...
...but even though we went a different way - we ran into a flooded path again and we didn't want to go back so we took off our shoes and waded across - it wasn't too deep - but it was deeper than I thought...
More evidence of the flooding...
it does create some bald eagle habitat 'though...
The Man-Cub was fascinated by these giant dandelions...
...it's about 3 inches across...
and some pretty wild berries - we didn't eat any - not sure what they are...
some pretty wildflowers too...
On the way home there were hoards of dragonflies - they must have just hatched out - I was driving so I couldn't get a good picture of the swarm.
Wonderful nature photos - reminds me of when we saw bison/buffaloe (don't know which) and the priarie dogs on our trip to Custer, SD a couple of years ago. Looks like a fun outing for you guys. Enjoy it while you can - mine stopped going along voluntarily at about 12! I guess they had their fill of that sort of thing in Boy Scouts and didn't need mom along anymore!
ReplyDeleteThe jerky looks pretty good, actually!
Better get some work done now! love, k
The jerky was good - but all we really wanted on our hike was WATER - it is so hot here - I had an email that it was only 86 in Columbia - that's funny...
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Your outing looks like fun. Lots of interesting things to see and do. We had heard it was very hot up there, quite a change I guess. E
ReplyDeleteYep - it's still very hot - they chose the hottest week all year for the Man-cub's baseball playoffs - I'll let you know how his team does soon.
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