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Two RV Gypsies: Full-Time RVers In Austin, Minnesota June 22, 2012 |
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The Jay C. Hormel Nature Center is a municipal nature preserve in Austin, Minnesota which comprises approximately 500 acres of restored and remnant prairie, hardwood forest, wetlands and meandering streams. Purchased with municipal, state, and private donations, the center is administered by the Austin municipal government through the Parks and Recreation Department. |
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| The big rock was the first thing the two RV Gypsies saw at the Nature Center. Geologists date this rock back to 3.6 billion years. Pressures deep in the earth changed the boulder from granite into gneiss. Billions of years of erosion and uplift now expose the rock that used to be deep in the earth. Size of Rock: 20 x 17 x 11 feet WEIGHT: 125 tons |
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Below: A map of
the trails and fancy carvings introduced the Nature Center to the two
RV Gypsies. |
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Below: The two RV Gypsies
explored Inside the Interpretive Center and loved the Screech Owl and
the Burrowing Owl. |
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| Then the two RV Gypsies walked part of the shortest and easiest trail at the Nature Center - about one mile round trip. | |
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Below: There is nothing like the beauty
that nature has to offer. That is why the two RV Gypsies love to travel. |
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Myre-Big Island State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, just outside the city of Albert Lea. It has an area of 1,578 acres. The park protects 8 miles of shoreline on Albert Lea Lake. The nucleus of the park is Big Island, a 117-acre island attached to the mainland by a causeway. In turn a causeway connects Big Island to Little Island. The park was formerly named Helmer Myre State Park after former Minnesota State Senator Helmer Myre. The two RV Gypsies found this to be a nice boating area, and since they did not have a boat, they did not spend much time here. |
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