Day Fifteen
Woke up in the beautiful lodgepole pine forest. After breakfast and packing up, we did a geocache on the way out. It started to rain againand thunder was near by. Drove to Medicine Hat for lunch. Headed northwest again to Dinosaur Provincial Park.
As you arrive at the park you are on a flat cattle ranch plain which descends into a badland area carved by the Red Deer River. We arrived at our site to grey clouds with Environment Canada predicting rain all evening. As we set up the first tent, the park warden arrived and told us of a weather watch for thunder storms until about 7PM. While we were setting up the girls went exploring and found a deer with a young fawn and some cactus in bloom. As soon as we set up the kids tent, the rain started. While waiting it out in the truck, the park warden came by again with a more serious notice that the weather watch had been upgraded to a severe weather warning with tornados and large hail. He recommended that we leave for the night, so we packed up in the rain and drove a half hour to the nearby town of Brooks. We found a nice Holiday Inn and called a few known weather-channel watching relatives that we were safe and dry.
Leaving Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park
Deer and Fawn at Dinosaur Provincial Park
Deer and Fawn Footprints at Dinosaur Provincial Park
Cactus in bloom at Dinosaur Provincial Park
As you arrive at the park you are on a flat cattle ranch plain which descends into a badland area carved by the Red Deer River. We arrived at our site to grey clouds with Environment Canada predicting rain all evening. As we set up the first tent, the park warden arrived and told us of a weather watch for thunder storms until about 7PM. While we were setting up the girls went exploring and found a deer with a young fawn and some cactus in bloom. As soon as we set up the kids tent, the rain started. While waiting it out in the truck, the park warden came by again with a more serious notice that the weather watch had been upgraded to a severe weather warning with tornados and large hail. He recommended that we leave for the night, so we packed up in the rain and drove a half hour to the nearby town of Brooks. We found a nice Holiday Inn and called a few known weather-channel watching relatives that we were safe and dry.
Leaving Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park
Deer and Fawn at Dinosaur Provincial Park
Deer and Fawn Footprints at Dinosaur Provincial Park
Cactus in bloom at Dinosaur Provincial Park
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