We are camped in an all-day and night rain in Natural Tunnel State Park, near Duffield, VA.
The creation of Natural Tunnel began over a million years ago, in the early glacial periods when groundwater bearing carbonic acid percolated through crevices and slowly dissolved surrounding limestone and dolomite bedrock. Daniel Boone was one of the earliest people to see the tunnel but no one wrote of it until Lt Col. Stephen Long explored the site in 1831 and published an article in a geology journal (the walls of the tunnel show evidence of prehistoric life and many fossils can to this day be found in the creek bed as well as the tunnel walls) in 1832. Large coal deposits were discovered in the area and although they no longer carry passengers, trains continue to this day to carry coal through Natural Tunnel to power plants in SE US. In 1967, the Commonwealth of VA acquired the tunnel and 100 surrounding acres to establish the state park. 500 acres was later acquired and the park opened in 1971 consisting of just under 1000 acres
The creation of Natural Tunnel began over a million years ago, in the early glacial periods when groundwater bearing carbonic acid percolated through crevices and slowly dissolved surrounding limestone and dolomite bedrock. Daniel Boone was one of the earliest people to see the tunnel but no one wrote of it until Lt Col. Stephen Long explored the site in 1831 and published an article in a geology journal (the walls of the tunnel show evidence of prehistoric life and many fossils can to this day be found in the creek bed as well as the tunnel walls) in 1832. Large coal deposits were discovered in the area and although they no longer carry passengers, trains continue to this day to carry coal through Natural Tunnel to power plants in SE US. In 1967, the Commonwealth of VA acquired the tunnel and 100 surrounding acres to establish the state park. 500 acres was later acquired and the park opened in 1971 consisting of just under 1000 acres
The BirdMobile at our Saturday night campground in the woods at High Knob Recreation Area
We stopped by this State Park on our way
Pretty flowers on the grounds of the park
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Cedar Waxwing (Juvenile)
"Orangish," rather than yellow, terminal bands now seen on some tails are attributed to pigments found in alien honeysuckle fruits introduced to their diets.
Kudzu is so prevalent, choking out natural flora
Correction: There ARE natural lakes in Ohio!
Ft Desoto County Park
White Morph Reddish Egret
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