Judy and Erling were at Bemidji State Park today. We hiked the Bog Trail. It is a pretty unique look at a bog. A bog is an environment where peat builds up making a watery area fairly acidic. This prevents things from biodegrading - meaning fossils can be well preserved for a long time. It also limits what type of plants can grow. We saw many plants we had not seen before. One of the unique plants was a Lady Slipper. I attached a photo of one to this post. We also saw a tamarack tree which has incredibly soft needles.
As part of our hike, we also learned the origin of the term 'get bogged down' since a peat bog is a bit hard to hike through. Fortunately, the state park has a nice wooden dock through the trail so we didn't get stuck.
More pictures of our bog walk can be found on a Picassa gallery. Click on the image to access the gallery.
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Hi Erling and Judy! Hope you are enjoying your visit with Mom while the kids are at Norwegian Camp. We are planning on attending the program on Saturday. It does begin at 10:00 a.m. right?
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Earl-
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you have finally grown up and bought a truck- A Dodge at that!- good choice
Roger
Hey guys!
ReplyDeleteWe have been thinking alot about you starting off on your trip and how exciting it must be (and how jealous we are!!) Hope you have a blast!! The trailer looks great! How is the driving going? Beautiful pictures! Looking forward to being able to follow along. Trevor says Hi to Andres and Elena.
The Benton Family