Bottomless Lakes State Park

Another set of sink holes. The cowboys that named it tried discerning their depth by tying lariat ropes together and dropping them in the water. Because they were short on lariats, they decided the small lakes were bottomless.

They had a great little interpretive center, and we got to see a roadrunner. Two, actually, though number two was outside the park. The one IN the park was obviously paid by the State to entertain visitors as he ran out into the road as we approached, ran around in a circle, ran to the other side and back again before disappearing on the same side he originally emerged from.

Shh. We picked up a few excellent small specimens of selenite from the ground.Read more