LIFE AFTER LAKE PACTOLA...VACATION!!

FIRST DAY AWAY FROM LAKE PACTOLA: Our first destination was the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary…we had reservations to camp there for the next two nights as well as take the Wild Horse Tour on Wednesday morning. We arrived at the sanctuary about Noon on Tuesday, checked in, had lunch and then were off to Hot Springs, SD to explore.

This photo was taken of us at the Wild Horse Sanctuary with the wide open spaces where the horses roam in the background and the sanctuary buildings in the valley below!

First stop was the Mammoth Site. I normally do not get very excited about dinosaurs and such, but this tour was very interesting and it is an actual active dig site where they are still finding bones. Rather than take the bones to a museum, they built a museum around the dig site. We had a tour guide and the whole museum was very nicely presented. Here is a photo of me next to a Woolly Mammoth!!!




Stopped at a local grocery store and then returned to our campsite at the sanctuary. Back at the campsite we wandered around taking pictures.