Today we went to Wind Cave. This is the 6th longest cave in the world, at 130 or so miles of underground tunnels. AND, all of it is under 1 square mile of the park. AND, they think less than 5% of the tunnels have been mapped! I guess if you got one of those natural sponges at the store and started crawling through every little opening, that's what it would be like underground here. It gets its name because it breathes in or out depending on the high or low pressure systems in the outside weather. Today it was breathing in. It can have a 70 mph wind at its little entrance. I'm sorry I didn't get a picture of the natural entrance. I would fit through it, as would Autumn, Quinn, Tessa, and Brenna. Poppa and Nana? Nope - they had to go through a big revolving door.
Here is a picture from inside the cave:
After Wind Cave, we went to The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs. Mammoths used to live here, and about 26,000 years ago some fell into a pond and got covered up. Paleontologists are digging up their bones now. The whole site is inside a building:
Mammoths looked a lot like elephants, but bigger. An elephant would only reach up to this ones chin:
When we got back to the campground, Poppa said this was a great
remuda, whatever that is:
Poppa asked me to include this wine-scape for Rich and Dave. I'm not sure that's how the nursery rhyme goes :
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Location:Beaver Lake Rd,Custer,United States
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