John Day Fossil Beds – Eastern Oregon August 16-17, 2009
We have spent the last two days traveling amongst some of the most varied and interesting landscape in central Oregon. We entered the John Day Fossil Beds viewing an almost continuous 40 million year fossil record of plant and animal life. We drove through the 3 distinct sections seeing the Clarno Unit, the Painted Hills Unit and the Sheep Rock Unit. The 14,000 acres reveal an amazing amount of diversity and the incredible changes that have occurred in the landscape, climate, and the kinds of plants and animals.
It has been a great way to start our adventure. All has been going well, the MoHo has been behaving well, as have the “Boys” and Mike too. We have dry camped the last two nights with no problems. Tonight we are in Hermiston at a full hook-up campground, welcomed as the day has warmed up to 95 degrees, love the air conditioning.
Tomorrow we head to Spokane Washington.
Stay tuned; your intrepid travelers.
Mike & Karen
Beautiful pics! It looks like someone painted those hills with a brush!
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I love that area. Years ago we would go to John Day to visit Mona when she lived there. There was a hill at the end of a football field, at a school, probably Dayville. We would climb the bank, find a good spot to sit and dig out fossils with our rock hammers. Probably can't do that now!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHope everything is going well and the boys are enjoying the adventure. Once you get through Spokane and into Idaho the scenery is beautiful.