Friday, November 27, 2009

The Black Hills and Custer State Park




Above: Bison (Buffalo)

Custer State Park is the largest state park in the country and is a wildlife lover's paradise. There is quite a variety of life within the park but the Bison, Antelope, Sheep and Elk (oh yeah, and the Prairie Dogs) steal the show. Custer State Park is where I saw my first Bison in person, in the spring of 2004. We saw quite a lot of them on this trip. The Antelope are pretty creatures, but by far the Prairie Dogs are the most fun to watch. They actually make you laugh as they scurry about, every now and then picking a fight with another Prairie Dog.

Below: Pronghorn Antelope



Below: Bighorn Sheep



Below: Prairie Dog



Below: A small windmill that we found during the day and decided to come back to later in order to shoot the stars and the moonlight.





Below: Roger shooting the sunset with the moon behind him.



Below: Roger took this picture of me taking a picture of this tree.



Below: Here's the picture that I took while Roger was taking my picture :-)



Below: Spearfish Falls



Below: Sunset over the Spearfish River

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