We took our travels southwest a bit, a whopping 120 miles, to Burke, TX. This campground is a hole-in-the-wall campground, but was good for a short stay.
I picked a good one for the summer heat... no shade trees for relief, and the temperature ran in the mid-nineties. I found it paid to be resourceful with the materials one has at hand. While the site was level for the trailer, it was another story when it came to putting down the trailer stabilizers:
Yes, the rocks were intentional, the only way to ensure a flat surface for stabilizers to come down on. We made it work, and we were good to go.
Our only attraction we visited was a Natural Science Museum.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a "Big Bang" believer. If these scientists are correct in carbon dating, God started creating the universes a looooooooooong time ago. God must have had a longer day than we acknowledge today.
The museum starts on the fossil side of town, so we started on that side too.
One thought I have begun to believe more and more about creation is that when God made the earth and it was just an object of darkness and water, there were many creatures and plants, even before the dinosaurs.
This exhibit possibly coincides with the time God began making the water recede, giving way to land masses. When the meteor event occurred, fragments of colliding asteroids landed in the shallow oceans around what is now known as Sweden.
The dinosaurs would not have roamed until there was land to walk on, which would have possibly been a tropical climate, with the seas still receding and a sun beating down.
This guy was of the vegetarian community. The bone in front of the figure is the the back leg of that dinosaur, so you can see they were pretty tall.
It is said that crocodiles have been around since the prehistoric era, and they were, but a tad bit larger.
Today's crocodiles average length of 16 feet. The Sarcosuchus possibly averaged around 39 feet.
Can you find the actor in this icy grave?
I am going to give you time to find the actor.
Another area of the museum was items from our Native American friends, and the one that caught my eye was a blanket, with a letter.
The story behind this blanket went this way: The grandson of Geronimo, Chief of the Nation of Apache, tells the tail of the blanket.
Geronimo captured the blanket in battle in Old Mexico. He wore the blanket with two purposes in mind, a disguise in Old Mexico to blend in while scouting populated areas, and because it was light and cool it was protection from the heat when he was in the United States.
Times up. If you haven't found the actor... bottom, middle of the photo...
Here is another quiz: what is not the same?
Hint: something younger than 1,000 years old.
There is a section that honored the Space Shuttle Columbia crew.
That purple line represented the length and direction of the scattered debris.
Back to happier times.
For a small museum, there was a lot of good information. There was one more photo opportunity before we left.
All these dinosaurs were made by school children.
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