Bill and Nancy Smith Family
Travels and Holidays

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Big Bend National Park - enroute

We got left for the National Park from Alpine about 10 a. m. (a little late, as it turned out). We went around the east way and home along the west road. We all like to be aware of wild life and plant life that is special to the areas we visit. Nancy and I were interested in the similarities to the Sonoran Desert around Tucson, AZ, where we lived for eleven years, as well as the differences. Annette and Larry were especially anxious to find and photograph Pronghorns and Javelinas for the new Naturescapes site on their eduScapes.com web site.

It was about an hour and a half down to the Big Bend National Park. Along the way we stopped at a couple of the overlooks (not all). One had dinosaur bones, I think this one where Nancy took a picture of Annette and Bill was related to volcanic activity. Very interestings stuff along the way...

We did get lucky and saw a small herd of Pronghorns (I honestly won't swear which day and where we saw them!!). Annette jumped out of the Explorer and went over to the fence to get some closer shots. I took this from the window.

The Visitor Center at the Park had very nice exhibits. I'll put a link here later. There was a ghost town that we would like to revisit, but didn't have time this time around.

The Basin, where we stopped for lunch, and a surprise, and the drive to the Rio Grande completed our trip.

Page created 17 Jan 2000, last updated 17 Jan 2000.
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