Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Today we drove from Lincoln to Royal Nebraska, about 3 hours to the Ashfall Fossil Beds. Nebraska is pretty farmland.
The skies were very blue this morning.
Teeth of mammoths
Lab in the visitor’s center.
Full skeletal fossil of a baby rhino.
Petrified wood.
The majority of animal fossils found here are rhinos.
Fossil field where the first fossils were found in 1971.
There are a lot of different species of animals that lived near this waterhole that died from the ash of a supervolcano that erupted in Idaho. They have a building that covers the fossil bed. They call it the Rhino Barn because the majority of fossils are rhinos.
This is some of the ash they let you touch. If you walk outside into the sun, the ash sparkles. That’s because it is made of minute particles of glass.
Some ninja fun
The views of the land and flowers here is lovely.
Come walk with me…
The blue in this flower is so bold. I did not enhance the color.
We left to head to the Badlands in South Dakota.
We missed the South Dakota welcome sign…it was actually a small sign on a back road.
We did drive into this storm.
Got pretty wet but thankfully it wasn’t long before we were out of the hard rains. Hoping to do the Badlands tomorrow and then head Thursday to Mount Rushmore.