We started the day by going to a Farmers Market. We picked up some veggies and a cantaloupe that smells delicious. We will cut into it tomorrow.
Later, we went to check out the Falls of the Ohio. This is in Clarksville. There is now a dam above the falls. There is also a lot of the area exposed. This exposed area is a fossil bed. It was something to walk and see so many fossils.
This is taken from up by the interpreter center. Would you believe that the flood of 1993 came almost up to our feet?
Here are some of the fossils that we saw.
This one looks like it was a fish or it's tail.
How many can you see here?
I think that this is call Lacy Bryozoan.
Honey comb coral.
These were in an area just covered with more of these, pipe organ coral.
I think that this is a Knee Cap Coral.
Branching coral.
I think that this may have originally been wood .
This is Tusk Coral.
Tabulophyllum.
How many can you find?
Our third adventure of the day was to walk down stream on top of the levee for a little over a mile until we came to a park. This was at the park.
George is a brother to William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It was here that those going on the trip gathered and then started out from this point, up the Ohio. To me this was special as I have had the opportunity to go many of the places that they explored.
This is a reconstruction of the home on the original grounds. It has a nice view of the river.
These were growing in the front of the house. They are some kind of lily. We saw some more walking back to the truck.
And last but not least, a view of down town Louisville behind the train and the Ohio River.
2 comments:
What a fun walk. Finding all of those fossils would be like being on a treasure hunt.
Loved the fossils and especially loved the lilies! It looks like a very pretty place and how cool to see the jumping off point of the Lewis and Clark expedition. We are so used to living out where they passed through and I never really thought about where they started. Kind of neat to think of what they would have been experiencing as they began their journey.
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