Left
the vast plains of Wyoming and into Utah – red rock country. Needed
wifi again as things happening with our rental house, tenant had
given notice but left house in a bit of a state, thank goodness for
my niece and her husband!
We
enjoyed catching up with great friends via Facebook chat, who gave us
welcome advice about visiting Dinosaur NM. Thank you TelSal!
We
drove to Dinosaur National Monument and were amazed! It is the most
unique show of dinosaur fossils ever – they have kept part of the
quarry wall where hundreds of dinosaur bones were excavated and put a
building round it. We have actually touched real dinosaur bones! It
was simply sensational.
We
did the short Fossil Discovery trail out in the hot sunshine, 26oC.
This
we have done before, we just found out, when we visited in 2008 the
main building with the wall in was closed, the buildings were falling
down so they built a new visitor center further down the road and re-
built the Carnegie Quarry Exhibit Hall containing the wall of fossils
– we wondered how we had missed such a memorable exhibit, it only
opened in 2011.
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| Dinosaur car park above the fossil discovery walk |
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| Fossil discovery walk - spot the fossils |
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| the walk back up the road after doing the fossil discovery trail |
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| THE FOSSIL WALL |
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| CAMARASUARUS |
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| DIPLODOCUS |
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touching a real dinosaur bone!
STEGOSAURUS
THE FOSSIL WALL
the fossil wall from outside - how many more bones are hidden!
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We
camped in the Green River campground at the side of the pretty Green
River then drove the Cub Creek Road seeing beautiful rock formations,
petroglyphs and the Josie Morris cabin – a real pioneer woman.
GREEN RIVER CAMPGROUND
BOX CANYON AT JOSIE MORRIS CABIN
Ha, well done. It was the Green River Campground that I was trying to tell you about which is at the mouth of the river that passes through the Split mountain. Yeah Well done guys,T&S
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