Our first real stop on our trip was at Fossil Butte National Monument near Kremmerer, Wyoming (home of the 1st JCPenny). Dana’s sister had stopped here on one of her field trips and told us how cool it was. We watched the video in the visitors center about the layer where all the fossils are found. There are lots of plant and fish fossils. They also had metal casts of some of the fossils so people could make rubbings of them.
Near the entrance of the park they start showing the geologic timeline. 9 inches = 1 million years. Here is Magnus at the end of the timeline that reads, “recorded history.” The picture on the right is when the Earth was formed (you can just see the visitor center in the back, where the end is).
Dana went on a short hike up to one of the buttes. It was very pretty.
After we left the park and were driving through Wyoming we saw many many antelope: more than either of us had ever seen. There were even some at a rest stop we stopped at. The male is the one on the far right.
And here is the Wyoming state house in Cheyenne.
1 comment:
These are lovely photos. I am glad you had a good trip!
Wyoming and Colorado look terrific.
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