We mostly just enjoyed another day in what seemed like Fantasyland. I couldn't get over the pale sandstone and green opalescent water viewed from the shadows of the trees.
The magic did not dissipate even when you got closer.
Portions of the trail followed along steep rock cliffs.
This was the first day we saw the Sheltowee Trace turtle logo. I was immediately intrigued. Sheltowee means "Big Turtle" and it was the name given to Daniel Boone by the Shawnee Indians.
We found this big rock turtle!
On the way back to the campsite, we visited the Mill Springs Mill which has been restored by the Army Corps of Engineers. This is the world's largest overshot water wheel. That means the water hits the buckets just on the forward side of the top of the wheel. It comes from that squarish sluiceway with the pipe from the stream attached.
I liked that you could see the gears.
We were having an extraordinary time, except that we had gotten into the seed ticks the night before and both of us were covered with bites. I did blog about that in 2019 after I got home. In fact, the number of bites made me sick for a day- I think from the anticoagulant they produce. We did not hike the next day. (But we didn't get any nasty diseases)
In other news: Well, I didn't include yesterday's accomplishments because it took me a long time to do the anniversary post, so I'll sort of list everything today, but you've heard most of it before... like every day. I edited hard- trying to get the in-house project to a good place before my trip. I did shopping and errands, I worked on hike plans. Today, just leave out the shopping and errands and put in writing the other column. The shock cord came to fix my tent, so maybe that will be tomorrow. I'm sort of reaching panic stage.
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