Wednesday Activities - page 3

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It rained most of the night Tuesday to Wednesday morning so we woke up to cloudy skies. Today is the day we go to the Great Salt Plains Wildlife Refuge and dig selenite crystals from the salt plains. It takes about an hour and a half to get there. We got there and the plains were UNDER WATER and it was raining really hard. There was no way we could go crystal digging. So back to camp but we'll stop in Alva, OK at a McDonalds to get lunch. Then back at camp the sky was less threatening so we went swimming again... noone was at the pool so we basically had it to ourselves!! Great swimming day! We ate Hamburgers and Hot Dogs grilled here at camp. Then we headed up to the Selman Bat Cave to watch the bats emerge. While there we found a special animal (see below) and finally just at dark, the bats came out and flying everywhere around us. Click on any photo to see an enlarged version.
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	Where does the trail go??
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		Through the grasslands...
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And Mr. D stops dead in his tracks and yells out... STOP!!! He almost stepped on this....	It's a baby baby deer asleep in the grass... guess we scared mama away and we almost squished it!	It was definately an AWWWW moment! We stayed quiet and took LOTS of pictures
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	Then back on the trail to head for the observation area to wait for the bats.	See the face in the mountain??
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Look hard....	Waiting for the bats to wake up and fly!! They flew at 9:05 p.m. (just about total dark!) But we did get to see them!
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