Monday Sept. 14 "One fossil views another"

Today we left Kemmerer and headed back to Fossil Butte to see what they had to offer…turns out, the only thing they had was an excellent display of fossils ranging from small fish, a 13 ft alligator and a 10 ft tall palm branch…all very interesting.  Sorry we didn't get any photos.

Setting our GPS for Vernal, UT we headed south into Utah and then Colorado. The drive took us through some astounding country…dry barren hills and broad green valleys. We drove the Sheep Creek Geological area on the way to the south end of Red Gorge. The lake viewed from the high vantage of the canyon rim was great. We stopped in Vernal for lunch and just had to laugh at their slogan of “Utah’s Dinosaur Land” and accompanying dinosaurs!

Next we continued on to Dinosaur National Monument. There we toured the visitor center and hiked the trail through the quarry to observe fossils embedded in the rock walls of the quarry…I had seen this before, but Charlie was “wow”ed by it. We finished our visit by driving the self guided tour through the park with spectacular pictographs & petroglyphs…evidence of human habitation of the area dating back several thousand years.

It was getting late so we headed down the road again…this time for Craig, CO. Almost had a collision with several deer along the way…but old “eagle eye” Bob, with Charlie screaming at the top of her lungs, missed them!