Today we made our over the border booze run into Missouri and stopped at Mammoth Spring to eat our Sonic Burgers and take the dogs for a "nature hike" before heading home. It's such an incredible place ... so beautiful and so magical .... we love it there and it's only 18 miles from home. Mammoth Spring is a very large spring and is the largest spring in the state of Arkansas and the 2nd largest spring within the Ozark Plateau region. Rainfall in southern Missouri seeps into the water table and flows through a vast system of passages and cavities. These cavities form a main channel and the groundwater reaches the surface at the town of Mammoth Spring, Arkansas. The emerging water forms a 10 acre spring pool that drains over a high stone dam. The spring generates a flow of 344 cubic feet per second. The water emerges at a constant 58 °. The spring itself cannot be viewed at the Mammoth Spring site because its mouth is more than 70 ft below the surface of the large spring pool. The spring's large volume of water travels a few hundred feet before merging with the Warm Fork of the Spring River to form the Spring River headwaters. The Spring River is one of the best float rivers in the nation.
Here's Lea today with the girls doing their best pose in front of the spot that the water emerges ... note the white dog poop bag hanging out of Lea's pocket .... seems we picked up a habit that's hard to break :)
And a fact sign .... you can read it if you click on it to make it bigger
And last .... a photo I took on another day. It shows the water spilling out of the pond and becoming the Spring River ....
Don't worry .... there won't be a quiz on this later :)
I wouldn't be able to post everyday. Most days I do not do anything at all interesting. I am jealous of the fun, fun, fun life you two are leading. I loved the music to the Sydny video. It is such fun watching her grow up starting with a little egg in a hole in the ground.
ReplyDeleteBobbie .... you crack me up :) you are just by being who you are .... and the way you are .... a very interesting person .... all you have to do is talk :) ... so you probably could post everyday :) .... see .... look at all the smiles you gave me :)
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ReplyDeleteTurtles can breathe through their butts. Have you noticed Sydny doing it?
(I know some people like that, don't YOU?)
Pat .... now that you mention it .... Sydny is often buried head down with her butt in the air .... that's funny. I do know some people like that LOL and some that talk through them too :)
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