Wednesday, September 16, 2009

john day fossil beds























3 comments:

Nate and Jeff Bowler, Co-Captains said...

Is that a rare North American tiger in that painting? And why is she allowed to hunt and nut us?

nwb

Slider K. Shaftacular said...

Take me to this place some day.

Kid Shay said...

Nate - There were some tigers in John Day, but mainly the fossils found there are from an extinct catlike animal called a nimravid. The nimravids probably went extinct because they followed the "no hunting" signs posted prominently throughout the park.

Slider - It's a scenic four and a half hour drive from Portland. We'll stop and eat at the Black Bear Cafe in Madras along the way.