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[disneydream06]

The Badlands of South Dakota...










A few things do grow here...


And a few things live here...










And some wildlife...

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[owlstorm_9]

Looks a bit like N. Arizona & S. Utah...

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

YIKES, it must be spreading. :o

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

that looks exactly like a place I would love to be in and spend a fair amount of my time!!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

You are able to hike out in to a few of the areas too. I didn't because dad and Maggie were in the car. :)

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

it must be wonderful to hike there!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Bring fluids and watch the paths. :o

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

LOL*** i don't doubt that!!!

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

Sights that take my breath away... Great shots! :-)

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I am glad you like them. :)

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Amazing scenery.

Thankfully, we have only one venomous native snake here- the adder.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

JUST the adder, huh? lol.....

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

The one and only and they're not all that venomous either.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I would rather not find out. :o
Thankfully the only snake I ran across while on vacation, I think was a little garden snake.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

That'll be something like what we call the grass snake although it's really a legless lizard and completely harmless. :o)

http://www.davekilbeyphotography.co.uk/images/uploads/grass-snake-3321-lg.jpg

They're pretty little things!

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

Where did it get the name Badlands from?

What an amazing landscape - that place is incredible!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Not positive, but I have always assumed it just came from the landscape itself. That it's so desolate.

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

it's quite amazing

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Pretty cool, but watch the rattlers. :p

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

yikes!

[changeling72.livejournal.com]

It looks like pretty in a dry kind of way.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

VERY dry. :o
I made the comment to my dad, I wonder what the coloring would look like after a good rain.

[restoman.livejournal.com]

Great photos, Jon!!!
I visited the Badlands 7 years ago on my cross-country road-trip. It was the most magical and memorable place I saw. The badlands is particularly beautiful in the evening sun, it brings out the colors and accentuates the topography. I camped there overnight, sleeping in the open bed of my pick-up truck, under the stars and moon, with coyotes howling in the distance! :-)

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Some time I need to go out there and spend the night in Wall, and then drive back out to the Badlands in the evening.
Way cool about spending the night in your truck. :)

[ellierachael.livejournal.com]

Looks cool!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Cool, but so not "cool". LOL........