Monday, July 13, 2009

Mississippi River & Effigy Mounds

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Crossed the Mississippi from Wisconsin to Iowa today!
(First time we’d ever seen the Mississippi.)

  
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Effigy Mounds National Monument by Marquette, Iowa.

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The Little Bear mound.
This photo doesn’t show it well, but it is actually in the shape of a bear. Due to their size, mounds are best viewed from the sky or a high lookout point, and we didn’t have the chance to take advantage of that this time. Still, it was a very nice hike up close, and we learned a lot of interesting things about the American Indian people who lived here hundreds of years ago.

http://www.nps.gov/efmo/naturescience/index.htm

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