April 2, Great Sand Dunes National Park

Very windy today. After watching the sandhill cranes at dawn this morning, we drove out to the Great Sand Dunes National Park. The second we stepped onto the sands we knew we were not going to do much. Winds were around 50 mph and it was like standing in front of a sand blaster. I grabbed a couple of pictures and we took off for the car really fast. It was not fun at all.

We did get over to the Ft. Garland museum, which is quite interesting if you are into the history of the Indian wars in the mid-1800′s. Lots of historic happenings in those times. It is something to see how the soldiers lived back then. Not quite sure how they put up with the winds. It would drive me crazy. They never seem to stop.

Like this:

Be the first to like this post.

This entry was posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:32 am and is filed under Uncategorized . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.