Close to the campground along a pathway you can find all kinds of fossils. If you click on these pictures to make them bigger you will be able to see them much better. One group is all shells fossilized in rock with the white snail shells that look like they washed up on shore yesterday but are in fact fossilized. The picture with the big rock "glob" of shells, seaweed, etc in the rock and the smaller gray swirly snail shells shows fossils that are fairly small. The picture with the two darker rocks on the right side of the picture show the tiniest fossils in the rock. You can see the small bumps in the rock that were ancient seeds or sea creatures - not sure which. The state park about 40 miles from here has some giant fossilized snail shells -- they are at least two feet high -- amazing how big they got.
We had some excitement here -- a chase on the highway past the park involving a car and at least two dozen police cars of various sorts. They were chasing a stolen vehicle and when they got it stopped -- at the campground in the national park. The man driving had a gun that he turned on himself -- he also had a woman with him. The officers shot him in the arm and took him into custody. The amazing thing about the whole episode was the car chase -- it looked exactly like when they chased OJay down the freeway. There were Del Rio police, the highway patrol, federal park enforcement personnel, a helicopter and even the Texas rangers all after this car.
We got to enjoy a Valentine's dinner and musical entertainment Saturday night. The owner of the park grilled up some pork roast and served it with salad and vegies -- everyone brought their own favorite beverage and it was very good. The trio of musicians that played did a good job on their guitars and fiddle. -- It was good even though it was mostly the slow country songs -- not my cup of tea -- but it was still fun to get together and listen.
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