Wednesday August 9th 2023
We had been booked to stay at the Badlands National Park rv site for a week for our second week in South Dakota and were really looking forward to being in the middle of such an amazing area but apparently the computer system had gone wrong and had allowed lots of people to make reservations even though there was not any space so everyone got an email canceling. This was very bad timing as that particular week was also Sturgis so all types of accommodations were booked months and months ago.
So instead of staying in the park we did a scenic drive to the south section of the Badlands. The north section (where the rv campsite is) is more interesting as there are walks and a visitor center but it would have been a 90 mile drive each way from Angostura.
https://www.nps.gov/badl/index.htm
Badlands is 244,000 acres of prairies and rock formations
We saw some prairie dogs. John was watching them through his monocular and I was taking photographs. John said "that prairie dog looks a bit weird". Turns out it was a burrowing owl and they are quite rare. They use the holes left by other animals, in this case the prairie dogs.
This you tube video tells you all about them, they have some funny characteristics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEb0lJk1NFs.
We then continued through the south section of the park into reservation land. There was a marker for the Wounded Knee Massacre.
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