Super 8 Vernal Ut

... a sort At the visitor centre we were able to handle some real dinosaur bones and then went for a walk around the dinosaur quarry outside, past a palaeontologist who was starting work for the day. We found some real dinosaur bone fossils on the fossil discovery trail including some vertebrae.

... one of the many beautiful homes for sell on this road. We arrived at Steamboat Lake which still had ice along the shore. There were several men fly fishing in the lake catching some nice size Rainbow Trout (20 inches) and some Cuttbow (a cross bread of the Rainbow and Cutthroat). The fishermen told us that they had caught 6 fish in 45 minutes. They were getting cold even though they were used waders. There were some fishermen in boats fishing out in the lake. This lake ...

... I rowed the raft we call "the marshmellow."  It's my dad's raft that I think is around 20 years old or something!  It's really old!  It used to be grey but he spray painted it white and now it's the marshmellow.  My dad now rows a big Maravia raft that's purple, it's pretty awesome.<br><br>One of the memorable things on this trip we did is the hike to this one little waterfall, they call it three butt falls because you can fit three butts ...

... a mountain, and a few petroglyphs. In other words, we drove hundreds of miles for nothing! But tonight we made it safely to Rock Springs Wyoming, a cute coal mining and railroad town. So Krystian got to see some dinosaurs and choo choo trains, so it was a big day for him - and that is all that really matters. Tomorrow, off to Yellowstone for 2 days!

... dame nous explique où aller et comment identifier nos fossiles et nous partons pour une randonnée à pieds dans le monde des Dinosaures. En marchant dans les montagnes comme les chercheurs de fossiles, on s'est rendu compte que ces grosses bêtes étaient difficiles à trouver à travers tous ces immenses rochers qui nous entouraient. Nous avons très distinctement identifié les os d'une queue de Dinosaure ...

... live there?! Spring-rocks: a norrmal village - south 200km: road goes on the mountain: very nice view. As you go south, bushes turn to trees. A dam on the green-river. forest. going down to a bare landscape. Venal - a nice place, about 20 motels - no 1 empty room. At 21:30 we approached Roosevelt, 43 km from Vernal. The second motel had 1 empty room!

... Pony Express. They place just blew us away - it is next to a small river and out on this huge quiet plain - you can see (but not hear) the I-80 in the distance. It was very peaceful - more so as we were close to the only visitors. There was an original pioneer wagon that had crossed the Californian Trail place on the site of the original "road" - now just part of the grass in front of Bridger replica trading fort. We also learnt that the Pony Express riders whilst doing 150 miles a day ...

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... back about 150 million years ago, and the bones were deposited in riverbeds (now granite rock) pretty much intact. The quarry, part of the Dinosaur National Monument, is a large piece of rock where one can see bones and vertebrae sticking out of the rock, all of it sheltered by an airplane hanger-like structure. We are now dinosaur-philes. We planned on staying for only one night here in Vernal, but tonight is the start of the famous Dinosaur ...

... all sorts of shades, from pure white to chocolate brown to white-and-black patterned to a grey Appaloosa style spotted one. They have huge, intelligent dark eyes, bushy little tails that they carry daintily elevated above their bums, and inquisitive, constantly flicking ears. They hum when they speak, a little bit like a throaty sort of "mooo." After four of them had been packed with panniers, we were allowed to choose the one we wanted to walk with. Dad chose ...