Wednesday, September 20, 2017

We left the Graner Campground, south of Mandan today, and drove about 300 miles to Belle Fourche, SD.  We are staying at the Rocky Point State Park.  I thought it was a federal park, but nope, it's a state park, and very nice.  We'll be here for 5 nights and will be doing a lot of sight-seeing in the area and geo-caching.  The geo-caching is taking us to some interesting places, so we're ready for it.  Jim got the dish set up, so we can watch the Brewers during our stay, and of course, football this weekend.  We changed our route a bit, and took I-94 west to Belfield, ND, and then south from there.  This took us through the North Dakota Badlands and the Little Missouri National Grasslands area.  I'll post pictures of things we saw along the way, and they are taken 'on the fly', so they may not be quality, but you 'get the picture'! 

This is The Circle of Flight that was on the hillside, as we passed by.  We saw this the last time we came through here, so some of you have seen this already, but it was worthy of showing again. 

We saw many large fields of Sunflower fields.  How does one take a good picture of Sunflower fields? 

Around Dickinson, ND, we started seeing the oil pumps.  This one must have been very lucrative, as it had 3 pumpers at this station.

                                                            Welcome to South Dakota! 

As soon as we crossed into South Dakota, we started seeing the Pronghorn Antelope.  We continued to see them all the way to Belle Fourche.

What would the Great Plains be without Bison?  We saw this very large herd, quite close to the road.