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| A big brown bat over one of the picnic tables | Before dinner we took a hike to see the trails around Alabaster. | |
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| We were going to look at a cave or two that we would go into the next day. | That hole is a gyp bubble... they look like a mound but usually have rattlesnakes living under them... | When you walk over a gyp bubble, you crash though and land just 2 feet below but in the middle of about 100 snakes! |
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| Don't ever walk over the top of them.. just to the sides.... | Nice canyons... hard hills to climb... gyp is very soft and will crumble under you if you are not careful! | |
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| The trails were pretty though... | in just 10 steps you can go 30 feet in elevation | Follow the pipe... it will lead us to civilization! |
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| Yeah! Civilization!! Swing sets!! (right next to a faucet!) | Owl cave... we'll cave here tomorrow! | |
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| Can't wait!! | On the road again! | 1/2 pound cheeseburger and tator tots!! Good caver food! |
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| Some ate in a lower eating area where they found some bats above them. | ||
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| Why...there's one now! | A big brown! | Then the park manager (Mike Caywood) came by to give us a snake safety/educational talk. |
