Since I have only recently started to blog our adventures I thought I would post a few of our favorite parks we have been to in the past years. One such park visit has taken us to the Badland NP twice. Last years visit was a bit more exiting than our previous one in 2010. What made it so exciting ? Well while at the visitor center the Ranger told us if we took a ride along the Sage Creek Rim road we might see some Big Horn Sheep. Since we had some time to kill before Sandee's meeting we said what the heck, lets go. Our efforts were rewarded. Along the road we got excited when we saw one lone male sheep just cruising along the road. We stopped and took some pictures of this lonely guy and we figured that was our big surprise but there was more in store for us.
As we continued along we saw a Ranger in a pickup sitting high on a ridge with the pickup pointing in our direction. I was going a bit too fast and figured OOOOOO no, they got me in radar and we have a ticket coming our way. Slowing down for a curve in the road and a farily large hill to our right we came face to face, if you will, to three large male sheep. We stopped and looked to our right and there was a herd of about 20 Big Horn sheep, males, females and babies. WOW, how cool. It seems the Ranger did not have a radar gun on us but was watching the herd. We hung around for about 30 minutes watching the herd, they crossed the road right in front of us and we took several more pictures. We were so happy we took the ride the Ranger suggested.
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