I heard Simon’s alarm go off at 7am this morning for him to
watch the Formula 1 qualifying. I
somehow managed to pull the duvet over my head and get some more sleep in. But when I woke up about 845am he was fast
asleep again so I thought I’d better leave him for a bit.
Despite the internet being rubbish last night, this morning
it suddenly pulled it socks up and I got lots of blog posted – in fact I posted
up to the end of February, what a feeling!
I am now hopeful that I can catch up before Stu and Jo get here in a
couple of weeks. I’m finally winning.
Simon had managed to watch most of the qualifying but it had
kept freezing so that’s decision made – we’ll try somewhere else tonight in the
hope of better WiFi for the race early tomorrow morning.
Dragging myself away from my laptop, we headed out around
noon and I navigated Simon along a scenic route to Badlands National Park. There were some interesting exhibits at the
visitor centre informing us about how and why the land has formed as it has. About 75 million years ago a shallow sea covered this area
now called the great plains. In today’s
Badlands the bottom of that sea now appears as grey-black sedimentary rock
called Pierre shale. This layer is a rich source of fossils from where
creatures died and sank to the bottom of the sea. The rock layers above this tell the
story of global climate change over millions of years.  |
| Longhorn sheep |
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| My photos should look like this apparently..... |
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| Mountain Bluebird |
Leaving the VC we drove the 32 mile Badlands scenic byway
west, containing numerous points for parking up to enjoy scenic vistas or
hiking trails. We spent about three
hours exploring the park both on foot and in the RV.
Do not
adjust your sets – yes the ground really is that yellow and red (right)! The chemicals from dying plants in a layer
that was once a jungle produced a yellow soil and subsequently a red soil that
were fossilised under further layers of sediment.
Do not
adjust your sets – yes the ground really is that yellow and red (right)! The chemicals from dying plants in a layer
that was once a jungle produced a yellow soil and subsequently a red soil that
were fossilised under further layers of sediment.
We then headed back towards Rapid City, passing the 17000-mile
mark as we did. Having suffered bad WiFi last night I was nervous about heading
to a new site, but when we arrived at Covered Wagon RV Park about 515pm, we
were given a site just behind the internet antennae and I was hopeful that our
quest had succeeded! We booked in for
two nights as tomorrow we will have an easy/contacting friends and family day
to slow the budget down a little for the week!
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