On Sunday, Carrie and I made our first stop at the Crazy Horse Monument in Crazy Horse, South Dakota. We decided not to spend over $100 a person to drive to the top of the monument even though I would have loved to have seen the Mountain Goats that reportedly live on the mountain. However, we did enjoy the video about the deceased sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, and his family that continue to work on the monument. We also enjoyed lunch at the restaurant by the monument. I had a buffalo burger there. Here are a few photos of the monument.
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Next, we stopped at Mount Rushmore National Monument in Keystone, South Dakota.
Carrie had been looking forward to going to Wall Drug the whole trip. She bought some ear rings and a charm there, and I bought a t-shirt with a buffalo on it that said "tatonka country." They had amazing donuts.
Our final stop was The Badlands National Park. We drove to the location in the middle of a Prairie Dog farm where Brian Tang had photographed Burrowing Owls. Here is a map to the location.
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.9079864,-102.3382526,1155m/data=!3m1!1e3
There were hundreds of prairie dogs there.
We found at least six Burrowing Owls right around the location Brian said they would be. Carrie was very excited to see them. She tried to get out of the car to get a better look, but when she started to get out to see one of them, it crawled back into it's hole. So we had to look at them from the car.
We also saw this female Blue Grosbeak.
At one point I thought I saw a Prairie Dog with a black head. I wish I had photographed it. It might have been a Black-headed Ferret.
We enjoyed the amazing scenery on our way back out of the park.
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