Another warm sunny morning. Today we headed off to the moon, well the craters of the moon. This is a National Historic Preserve, first time we have come across one of them.
We headed out to the area, about 20 miles away, and pulled into the information centre parking lot where we came across a rather unique trailer.
The couple were from Colorado, touring around.
The craters of the moon is an area of volcanic disturbance and has a unique landscape as well as a few volcanic craters. Again I’ll let the pictures do the talking. There were a lot of unique flowers growing out of the volcanic soil,
Lyn managed to spot a marmot on one of the rocks
The area was laid out as a driving loop with a number of parking areas and walking loops running from these parking areas. All walking trails had information at the beginning.
Seems a little overkill, but I am sure there is a good reason for posting the info.
We were able to go to the top of a couple of volcanoes and peer down the rims, these volcanoes were only about 100ft high!
This one was known as Snow Cone, as there was an accumulation of snow in the core.
Another cone we walked up was Inferno Cone, but there was no crater at the top of this one, just a steep walk up and down, with some views from the top, the walk wasn’t as long as the one the other day where we dropped 600 ft, but the slope was twice as steep. A good cardio work out.
Many of the rocks had bright coloured patches on, this was lichen
Below is today’s lunch time view
The rest of the shots are just general views around the area
Back at the campground we tried Skyping Paul as it was our grandsons 2nd birthday, but they were too busy celebrating at Boston Pizza. Not to be outdone we headed over to the cafe associated with the campground, which was rumoured to serve up excellent ribs. The rumour was true!