Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Hiking & Shopping in Canyon Lake 4/7/09

A quiet day hiking around the campground looking for fossils with our new found knowledge. Our first discovery - the skeleton of an alligator gar over 3 feet long. Seeing his teeth - EEK! I wouldn't want to upset him in the water.

We did find a lot of fossils of shells and clams plus something that looks like thumb-size rusty stones with circles in the middle. Identification?

While enjoying our oak trees, deer and forest, I've been blessed with seeing two new critters in the wild that I've never seen before....even though I was hunting for them in the desert. Clint turned over a rock to find Yin & Yang - a black and a white scorpion.

On our 30 minute trip to the local grocery store, we saw a pair of roadrunners and prickly pears along the road. The roadrunners made it to the shelter of the trees before we could capture them via camera.

NOTE: I'm attempting to get back to the blogging. I have March notes and photos to go through to post our fun time in Dallas, Houston and Corpus Christi with family.

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