Still with Stacy and Jack in Custer, SD:
Today was a sightseeing day. The four of us headed out to Jewell Cave National Monument. The tours of the cave were sold out for a couple of hours so we booked a mid-afternoon tour and left to tour Custer State Park and get some lunch.Custer State Park is supposed to have thousands of bison and, supposedly, they are to be found on the scenic wildlife loop. We saw some wild burros and a couple of deer.
Kristen snapped the rest of us at a scenic point:
Wild burros (not native - ancestors escaped captivity):
After a good lunch and an exploration of Custer we returned to Jewell Cave and went on the tour. Jewell Cave is the third longest cave in the world and, much to our satisfaction, is much more like Carlsbad Caverns than it is like Mammoth Cave. It's much wetter with a lot more limestone which leads to a lot of more interesting rock formations. We were very impressed.
This formation is called "bacon" and it really looks like it:
-J-
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