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115 -That's all for tonight!  Tomorrow, we plan to go on a boat through through a cave!
115 +That's all for tonight!  Tomorrow, we plan to go on a boat through through a mine!  ... Or not!
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118 +Tuesday, April 16:
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120 +Well, it turns out that the mine is still on winter hourx, so is only running tours on Friday-Sunday.  On well...
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122 +First, Kelly went to look at rocks again on the same stream where she was yesterday.
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130 +Zebra Swallow Tail Buterfly (a turquoise morph)
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136 +Instead, we decided to visit "[[Devil's Honeycomb>>https://shepherdmtninn.com/hughes-mountain-devils-honeycomb/]]", which is a trail going up Mount Hughes.  We had some exciting weather!  On the way up, it was beginning to look like rain and we had notifications of possible thundershowers and even tornadoes, but really it didn't look that bad to us, so we continued, figuring we would turn back if it started getting really bad.  It never did and we made it to the top, with some fantastic views.
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147 +Camassia scilloides is a perennial herb known commonly as Atlantic camas, wild hyacinth, and eastern camas
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158 +halictrum thalictroides, the rue-anemone or windflower
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163 +Viola pedata, the birdsfoot violet, bird's-foot violet, or mountain pansy,
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168 +Juniper struggling to grow in rock
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188 +Understory plants were previously destroyed by fire, so the forest floor is very spare.
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205 +Moss after the rain which we received on the way back down.
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210 +Pacific Hound's Tongue
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213 +Afterward, we went to Wallmart on the way back to the trailer, but then, as we entered our park, we suddenly decided to follow this "[[Mooner's Hollow Trai>>https://campingmissouri.org/2013/05/14/this-trail-deserves-an-award-mooners-hollow-trail-st-francois-state-park-5112013/]]l" which actually starts from within our St. Francois State park.  It was very late in the day, but we just wanted to see the supposed waterfall, which is at the point in the trail where it turns back in a loop.  As we returned to the truck in the parking lot, it was about 30 minutes after sunset and was rather dark.
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220 +Zizia aurea ("golden alexander") is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant of the carrot family Apiaceae
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233 +Erigeron pulchellus, the Robin's plantain, blue spring daisy or hairy fleabane
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242 +Castilleja coccinea, commonly known as scarlet Indian paintbrush or scarlet painted-cup
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245 +So, here's the waterfall at the turn-aound point of the trail.  Nice, but worth a 1-1/2 hour round trip endng after sunset?
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250 +Returning home to the kitties, we feed them, watched the fireflies outside the trailer for a while, and finally retired to update the blog and get some sleep.
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252 +Tomorrow is "moving day", something the kitties don't really like much.  We're going into the Eastern Time Zone, to [[Taylorsville Lake State Park,>>https://parks.ky.gov/explore/taylorsville-lake-state-park-7827]] in Kentucky.
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256 +Roughly 350 miles.
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259 +[[Taylorsville Lake State Park>>Taylorsville-Lake-State-Park]]
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