Saturday, September 9, 2023

Mammoth Goes Visiting and Camps Along The Way, Day 3

Wed 2 Aug 2023

Beard's Bluff Park to Eite Site (Ed's family private one-camper RV park)


 

 

 

Horrible awful drive. But at least the day started off with an osprey, a soaring Anhinga, and a bunch of strange shorebirds out in the water just at the edge of my camera's good range. I think they were American Avocets...not impossible, but not exactly in range for the place and time of year.

Avocets

 
Osprey
Our pair of resident geese


Bye to Beard's Bluff!



Then the drive. I chose to take US-71 all the way up to Fort Smith, and it was alternately "okay" and horrid. And it went through hundreds of thousands of stupid little towns. Our drive ended up taking almost six hours--longer than the drive from our house would have taken. Ugh; never again. US-259 would have been better. Or, more likely, we won't stay at the park again. I liked it but it just wasn't worth the drive time.

But we arrived finally and now we are here.



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