Vacation pics (lots)

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

After this, we moved to a campground right in Custer State Park. Much, much, much nicer campground. It didn't have all the amenities of the KOA, but it had a whole lot more atmosphere. There was a fence around it. Some people thought the Buffalo were fenced in in that area, but actually it was a fence to keep the buffalo out of the campground. The campground was fenced in, not the buffalo. And we found out for good reason too, because they came right up to the fence on a few occassions while we were there. We saw "evidence" of them being there, and the last night we were there "the guys" were out harrassing the buffalo and they probably came within 10' of the fence. Once the harrassing started (just yelling at them and making grunting noises like a male buffalo might to get the other males riled up) I was otta there! No tiny little wooden fence would hold back a charging buffalo, and I didn't want to be any part of that scene. But it would have been neat to get pics of them so close....oh well...next time. (yeah, right!)

There was an open area right near the campground where many buffalo spent their days.


There's a little creek down behind the trees, and I think the buffalo like this area because it's wide open, yet has trees for shade and water near by. You can usually count on at least one or two of them being here as you drive by. At one point, there was one across the road, just eating and slowly meandering towards this area. Well, this motorhome (not ours) comes to a screeching halt to stop and take pics of the buffalo. He was parked, and the next thing you know, the buff across the road decides to cross the road....right in front of his motorhome!


Just think of the pics that guy got! Although, he had to sit and wait for the buffalo to move before he could move his motorhome, and the buffalo found some pretty sweet grass right there, so he wasn't in any hurry to move.

As I said, this campground had a lot of atmosphere. Here is the little creek that ran past it. There was a really nice, paved, path that went along it for a couple of miles - really nice.


And they had a small lake - more like a pond - but just big enough for us to blow up our inflatable boat and go for a cruise. And yes, all 5 of us fit...but just barely.