Bluff Dwellers Cavern in Noel, MO then on to Oklahoma
October 27, 2008
We spent the morning at the Waldorf. We shopped and looked and organized our purchases into the Roadtrek. This Wal-Mart has a liquor store, an entire area as large as the garden section! Then, we got some gas at $2.06; it is nice to see the price coming back down.
We have decided to head west; it is to go below freezing here at the MO AK line. We stopped in Pineville to pick up our mail. The postmaster is named James Bradley and he is from Swissvale, PA; no relation as we could figure.
Bluff Dweller’s Cavern in Noel, Missouri was certainly one of the most scenic because of the varied types of cave growth: Sawtooth drapes, cave coral, Lilly pads, and a really long rimstone dam. We saw a few bats, several salamanders, and a salamander nursery. There are remarkable features also like the ten-ton balance rock. Our guide used one finger and rocked the rock!! It kept rocking for a few seconds before coming to rest once again against the two touch spots that hold it up. Our guide also tapped different points on one drapery dome and we listened to the different tones. This limestone cave was one of our favorites. It owned by the Browning Family as it has been for over 80 years. The Browning Museum is included in the tour; displays of over 700 locally found arrowheads….some must be atalatls! The displays of rocks and minerals are Smithsonian quality.
And we drove out of Missouri and into Arkansas. In Gravette we sat at the city park with their own caboose and watched a train with four engines chug by. Got a call from Kathy’s sister, Sueann. She got her birthday present: a fossil bowl, so she can remember pulling into the sixth decade of her life. Are they the fossil years?! Hee heee haaaaa.
We drove into Oklahoma on I40. Interstate driving to get out of the cold! We made it to Henryetta, OK and pulled into the Waldorf.
We spent the morning at the Waldorf. We shopped and looked and organized our purchases into the Roadtrek. This Wal-Mart has a liquor store, an entire area as large as the garden section! Then, we got some gas at $2.06; it is nice to see the price coming back down.
We have decided to head west; it is to go below freezing here at the MO AK line. We stopped in Pineville to pick up our mail. The postmaster is named James Bradley and he is from Swissvale, PA; no relation as we could figure.
Bluff Dweller’s Cavern in Noel, Missouri was certainly one of the most scenic because of the varied types of cave growth: Sawtooth drapes, cave coral, Lilly pads, and a really long rimstone dam. We saw a few bats, several salamanders, and a salamander nursery. There are remarkable features also like the ten-ton balance rock. Our guide used one finger and rocked the rock!! It kept rocking for a few seconds before coming to rest once again against the two touch spots that hold it up. Our guide also tapped different points on one drapery dome and we listened to the different tones. This limestone cave was one of our favorites. It owned by the Browning Family as it has been for over 80 years. The Browning Museum is included in the tour; displays of over 700 locally found arrowheads….some must be atalatls! The displays of rocks and minerals are Smithsonian quality.
And we drove out of Missouri and into Arkansas. In Gravette we sat at the city park with their own caboose and watched a train with four engines chug by. Got a call from Kathy’s sister, Sueann. She got her birthday present: a fossil bowl, so she can remember pulling into the sixth decade of her life. Are they the fossil years?! Hee heee haaaaa.
We drove into Oklahoma on I40. Interstate driving to get out of the cold! We made it to Henryetta, OK and pulled into the Waldorf.
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